Conservation of energy in conservative fields

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created: 2022-07-01 22:58:17
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Let's consider a conservative force field , which is characterized by the potential . By applying the work theorem, we get:

Which we can easily reorder to:

Which means that the total energy is conserved throughout the motion of the particle.