Definition:Conservative Force/Definition 2

Definition

A conservative force is a force such that the work evaluated around every simple closed contour is zero.

Examples

Gravitation

An example of a conservative force is gravitation.

Also see

• Equivalence of Definitions of Conservative Force

• Results about conservative forces can be found here.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): conservative force
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): conservative force