Of course you cannot despite your pretty picture. That is what we see from really dumb cranks - they draw a picture and are deluded into thinking that is science.
You can expend energy to create a force to equalize a force. For example that is how aircraft work.
There is a rock on the ground. It is not moving. There is no energy being expended. There is no work being force.
Newton's laws tell us that the net force on the rock must be zero (the forces have been
equalized).
What are these forces? They are:
- The force of gravity that is directed toward the center of the Earth.
- The electromagnetic forces between the atoms of the rock and the atoms of the ground that prevents the rock from ending up at the center of the Earth.
First asked 9 December 2009
Bjarne,
Can you understand that energy is not a force and so it cannot equalize a force?
You cannot equalize a force with energy. You have to have a force to equalize a force. Energy is not a force.
FYI:
- Force is a vector quantity. Energy is a scalar quantity.
- A vector quantity has both direction and magnitude.
- A scalar quantity just has a magnitude (it is a number).
- You cannot put a vector quantity equal to a scalar quantity.
- Force is measured in the SI units of Newtons. Energy is measured in the SI units of joules.