
Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
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The Concept of Mechanical Means
In a waterfall, the higher the fall, the more energy is carried with the water. We can have a c soaring transformation of energy being added by someone doing work on it. And in theory, this thing could be done in a friction free way so you could move these weights mechanically around. As kiara says, the mechanism itself, the system of pulles and weights, remains unchanged - what makes it behave like a catalist.
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