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- PHY102 Physics II © Dr.Cem Özdoğan
- Experimentally, physicists and engineers discovered that the electric force is conservative and thus has an associated electric potential energy.
- The motivation for associating a potential energy with a force is that we can then apply the principle of the conservation of mechanical energy to closed systems involving the force.
- gravitational field → force ↔ path independency