Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: Kraft



Guntbert gives a comprehensive reply to the "Kraft" question.

Now can someone tell me what Helmholtz meant in the title of his famous=
paper:

"Die Erhaltung der Kraft"

TX

JMGreen@sisna.com




At 09:21 PM 3/3/97 GMT, you wrote:
Jim Green wrote on Sun, 02 Mar 1997 22:57:19 -0700 :

Can someone please give the transliteration of the german word=20

Kraft

together with some possible connotations.

I'll try:

As long as you refer to a (modern) physical context: just use
force and nothing else.

But in everyday german you might be better off with power
("Kraftwerk" is a power-plant, "Kraftfahrzeug" is any
engine-powered vehicle, "Kraftwagen" is a car, "Kraftstoff" is
fuel)

Then "Kraft"/"kr=E4ftig" very often mean the opposite to
"weakness/weak".

Law: "in Kraft treten" =3D become applyable (or better valid?)

"kraft meines Amtes" =3D by virtue of my official position

Guntbert from Graz
(where we speak German, although the Germans won't admit it)