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I guess that's true :) Thanks again for your help!

Thanks, I appreciate it! (Man, of all the areas for a person to get hung up! One would assume it would have been E&M or fluids, or something... but nooooo... for me its "work" *sigh*)

Thanks for the response. So, I've got a good handle on PE and KE themselves, and how PE is related to position and KE is related to relative motion. And, now equations 1 and 2 make more sense given that E from equation 1 is different than E from equation 2. Equation 3 is good, too. But, I...

1 and 2 would make sense if E in case one was like a "thermal energy" and E in case 2 was a "total energy"... is this the case? Case 1 would just be when no heat is involved and case 2 when no heat or friction? But, that still leaves me confused with how (3) and (4) related to (1) and (2) Thanks!

Well, I really need help understanding what the more general equations stand for and how they work so I can derive more specific equations from them. Where I really get confused is when work is thrown into a conservation of energy statement--it screws with my previous knowledge. Given I'm...

Okay, so I'm a biology major who has already finished life-sciences physics, but I'm reviewing the material right now for the MCAT and the one subject that has got me a little confused is work. The texts I have available to me are essentially giving me equations and telling me to memorize them...