Precipitation from the sky to the earth can come in several forms. Four types are:
1) Rain
2) Snow
3) Sleet (think of a more liquidity slushy snow)
4) Hail (pretty much solid chunks of ice)
Work done against gravity to climb upwards is always stored in the form of gravitational potential energy
so we can say
here h = vertical height raised
so here we know that
here we have
now from above equation
so work done will be given by above value
The physical law that explains that is the law of conservation of energy which states that he energy of an isolated sistem remains constant
If you're talking about the <em>splitting</em> of an atom, the process is called Nuclear Fission.