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Unit of work

Motion where the only force acting on the object is gravity   Tom Petty loves this motion.

Round 3 of the world’s most boring game show, Work or Not Work?!?!?!   A block of cheese is resting upon a mouse’s back. The mouse crawls across a level tabletop carrying the block of cheese on its back neither raising nor lowering the block of cheese.  The mouse: Work or Not Work?!?!?!

Astronauts in orbit are weightless. 

A quantity where both the amount and the direction matter.   

This type of velocity is based initial position, final position, and time elapsed. It doesn’t take into account anything that happens between the two. 

Friction associated with sliding motion

Classical texts survived the early medieval period in Western Europe primarily through preservation by monastic scribes and Islamic scholars.

John Calvin taught that signs of salvation might be reflected in a person’s disciplined and moral life, though salvation itself was predetermined.

Technological innovation in Western history has usually followed, rather than caused, major shifts in political or religious power.