conservative force (English, noun)
expansion: conservative force (plural conservative forces)
Senses:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see conservative, force.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop.
Forms:
form: conservative forces
tags: plural