I’m still in school so this might sound like a bit of a stupid question. I know that work done = force x distance, so if I were to apply a force to an object in an environment where it would not be opposed by any other forces (such as space), the distance travelled would theoretically be infinite. Would this mean that the work done is also infinite? At what point do we stop measuring the distance travelled?
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You measure the distance that you applied force over, not the distance traveled. If you only push the object for a meter, then let go, the distance is 1 meter, even if the object slides off to infinity once you let go.
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