A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
Hermann von HelmholtzAbout author
- Author's profession: Physicist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: August 31, 1821
- Died: September 8, 1894
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