"Spaz" <yea@right.com> wrote in message news:d-CdnS2WRZl0TAvYnZ2dnUVZ_syunZ2d@comcast.com...

"Bob Kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:4vn5gaF1chbncU10@mid.individual.net...

It is not doing any work. What force is moving through what distance?

Ok, so if you stand there holding a 150 pound sack of shit in your arms, you could stand there and hold it all day long because you're not doing any work?

A common misconception between the physics term 'work' and the common usage of the word.  Holding up a 50 pound weight at arms length certainly takes a lot of effort on the part of the human being holding it.  But set the weight on a table and the table can hold it up all day long with no external energy input.  Understand the difference before you spout off again.

daestrom