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On 22/08/2019 21:34, Bill Wright wrote:
How come it needs much less effort to hold an electric sander against
the work than it does to do the work manually?

Bill

because in theory holding something in place does no work at all


Work = force times distance.

All force, no distance

An infintely large infinitely strong helicopter could hover with no
power input.





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