Re: why pseudowork (NOT)

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

Both Ludwik and Rick find my problem flawed.  I posed it precisely because
I thought the physics to be almost transparent.  Am I missing something?
Would someone please explain the perceived difficulty?

> A 2 kg block and a 1 kg block head toward each other with equal and
> opposite velocities of magnitude 1 m/s.  After colliding, the 2 kg
> block is at rest.  How much work was done on the 1 kg block?

BTW, it will help my diagnosis to know as well how much work you would say
is done on the 2 kg block.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm