如果小球再次滚落楼梯的话，其势能就能转化为功，类似于麦克斯韦在最初的头脑试验中使用冷热气体的运动做功一样。

This can be turned into work by letting it fall down the staircase once again—an analogy of using the movement of hot and cold gases to do work in Maxwell’s original thought experiment.

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如果小球再次滚落楼梯的话，其势能就能转化为功，类似于麦克斯韦在最初的头脑试验中使用冷热气体的运动做功一样。

This can be turned into work by letting it fall down the staircase once again—an analogy of using the movement of hot and cold gases to do work in Maxwell’s original thought experiment.

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