Physics

When holding a sack of potatoes, you are exerting a force, but since the sack is not moving, no work is being done.

 

The formula for work is:

Where:

is the force,

is the displacement (distance moved).

 

In this case, the displacement is zero because the sack is not moving. Therefore, the work done is zero.

 

Since power is the rate of work done:

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