Metadata aliases: [] shorthands: {} created: 2022-07-01 22:58:17 modified: 2022-07-01 23:02:12 Let's consider a conservative force field , which is characterized by the potential . By applying the work theorem, we get:
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Which we can easily reorder to:
Which means that the total energy is conserved throughout the motion of the particle.