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Question
Choose one or more correct alternatives.
For work to be performed, energy must be ______.
- transferred from one place to another
- concentrated
- transformed from one type to another
- destroyed
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Solution
For work to be performed, energy must be transferred from one place to another/transformed from one type to another.
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