Category:Definitions/Conservative Forces
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This category contains definitions related to Conservative Forces.
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Definition 1
A conservative force is a force which gives rise to a conservative vector field.
That is, a vector field which acts on a particle $p$ in such a way that the work done on moving $p$ depends only on where it started and where it ended up, and not on the path taken to get there.
Definition 2
A conservative force is a force such that the work evaluated around every simple closed contour is zero.
Pages in category "Definitions/Conservative Forces"
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