Your family is moving to a new apartment. While lifting a box 1.5 m straight up to put it on a truck you exert an upward force of 200 N for 1.0 s. How much power is required to do this?

1 Answer
Apr 28, 2018

Recall that power is the amount of work done per unit time,

#P = W/t#

When you're lifting a box, you're working against gravity. If you displace a box #1.5"m"# in the positive direction, you're doing,

#W = 200"N" * 1.5"m" * cos(0°) approx 300"J"#

of work in one second.

Hence, the power required to execute this lift is approximately,

#(300"J")/(1.0"s") approx 300"W"#