A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
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But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.Hermann von Helmholtz
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
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Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
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Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
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