It isn't being transferred to the wall.
You are just heating up your environment.
But a better example is the brick exerting a force on the sidewalk.
Neither one sweats.
But the brick is exerting a force on the sidewalk, and the sidewalk is
exerting an equal and opposite force on the brick.
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Get a free science project every week! "http://scitoys.com/newsletter.html"On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Simon Quellen Field <sfield@scitoys.com> wrote::)
> When a bullet is fired, half the energy does not go into the gun.
> Newton's third law is about force, not energy.
> When you push against a wall, it pushes back with equal force, or else
> something
> will move. Only when something moves has work been done, or energy
> transferred.
Why do I sweat when I push on a wall then? Isn't that an effect
(side-effect?) of
energy transfer?
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Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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