Everything about Irrotational totally explained
In
vector calculus a
conservative vector field is a
vector field which is the
gradient of a
scalar potential. There are two closely related concepts:
path independence and
irrotational vector fields. Every conservative vector field has zero
curl (and is thus irrotational), and every conservative vector field has the path independence property. In fact, these three properties are equivalent in many 'real-world' applications.
Definition
A vector field
The total
energy of a particle moving under the influence of conservative forces is conserved, in the sense that a loss of potential energy is converted to an equal quantity of kinetic energy or vice versa.
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