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YOUR “Potential Energy” corespondents will find three letters on the “Conservation of Energy” in the Engineer for January 12 and 19 and February 2 which may interest them. The writer “ΦΠ” assumes that all the phenomena of force are explained by the theory that only matter and motion exist, and that what we call potential “energy” is only “quantity and motion,” which motion is indestructible but diffusible.
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Z. Potential Energy. Nature 16, 547 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016547b0
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