ocr: What IS work? 2m Work is the transter of energy. For example, when a fork-lift truck raises cartons up against the force of gravity, it is using energy to lift them. Scientists describe this by saying that the fork-lift truck is "doing work" against gravity. In the same way, the boxing glove "does work" when it launches a pinball up the playing field. As energy is the ability to do work, so both energy and work have the same unit, the joule (J). Tocalculate the amount of work that the forklift truck does, we multiply the force used to lift the cartons by the distance upward that the cartons mo ...
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