Question

Potential Energy is defined only in conservative fields?

Answer 1

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✔️✔️${\huge{ Force}}$ is one for which work done by or against it dependsonly on the starting and ending points of a motion and not on the path taken.

We candefine a potential energy (PE) for anyconservative force.


the force is in any point the gradient of a scalar function.

It thus follows that the work done by the field does not depend on the path in its domain and consequently the work done along a closed curve is zero.

The same just does not hold true anymore whenever the field cannot be written as the gradient of a scalar function in any point.



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