Conservative or not?
Read exercise and reference answers
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- Work depends only on the end points
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- Conservative
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- Work round a closed loop is zero
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- Conservative
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- A potential energy can be defined
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- Conservative
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- Work depends on the path taken
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- Not conservative
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- Work round a closed loop is not zero
- Category
- Not conservative
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- Energy is lost to heat along the way
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- Not conservative
- Categories
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- Conservative
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- Not conservative
The test is whether the route matters. Source: syllabus Physics, Ch 5 Work, Energy and Power.