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Chuck Britton wrote:Ludwik Kowalski wqrote
I like to think that WORK is a PROCESS of converting Energy
from one form to another. ....
not the process itself. Wind interacting with the sail of a moving boat,
for example, is a process, work is one of many physical quantities
associated with it. Other quantities are time, displacement, viscosity,
temperature, buoyant force, reflectivity, etc. The same is true for
other processes, such as magnet working on a toy, you climbing a hill
or her pushing a box.
Having a different name for a process, as opposed to names of
physical quantities, is desirable, in my opinion.