Talk:Work (physics)/Archives/2004/August
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Removal
I've removed the statement "in the direction of the force" from the introduction. I believe that it is both needlessly confusing for an opening paragraph and inaccurate. You shouldn't say things like that unless you're willing to immediately get into the question of orthogonal components and resolution. --Smack 19:04, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- In the UK, the topic of Mechanical Work is often taught before vectors and integration, and well before vector integration. As such, any of my students visiting this page would need to read down as far as Simpler Formulas before they can use scalars in the appropriate context. My addition of the offending phrase was meant for those readers for whom vector integration in the second sentence of an article would be too much.
- The Position link leads to a disambiguation page - did you mean this? The Location article looks a slightly better link (still identified as position, of course)
- For uniform circular motion, it is usually the angular velocity that is constant. The (vector) velocity changes continuously.
- Ian Cairns 00:41, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Have I addressed these issues to your satisfaction? --Smack 19:55, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Looks good to me - but I'm not the referee. Thanks Ian Cairns 21:38, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)