Development of the Work Energy Concept in Mechanics

The sign on the calculation is controlled by the cosine of the angle. If the angle is less than 90 degrees, the work is positive. ... notice that the plus/minus sign convention for x is not important since the x value is squared. Only the relaxed position need be carefully assigned, to zero. We now apply the final step. ................
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