On Feb 16, 8:45*am, Sam Wormley wrote:
Peter wrote:
Hi! Is it correct to say that work is a form of energy? At least that
is what the work-energy theorem seems to assert.

Background
* *http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Work.html
* *http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Energy.html
* *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechani...on_between_wor...
* *http://science.palomar.edu/physics/P...r/Tutor15.html

It is strange that while, according to E = mc^2, energy is something
tangible, concrete, that has mass and or momentum, work, which has
neither mass nor momentum, and not even a physical presence, be also
called energy.