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How does work...work? - Peter Bohacek

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The concepts of work and power help us unlock and understand many of the physical laws that govern our universe. In this Lesson, Peter Bohacek explores the interplay of each concept when applied to two common objects---a lightbulb and a grandfather clock.

If you were to raise the metal weights in a grandfather clock 0.75 meters, and they weighed 250 newtons, how may joules would it take?

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