Your mother asks you to carry a one-gallon water bottle from the car to the house. She carries one as well. You go directly to the house, but your mother gets the mail, checks the fl ower beds, and then enters the house. Who did more work in carrying the water? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
She did. Work is force through a distance. The force required to carry the
water is the same, but the distance is diff erent since hers was longer.
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