Conservation (English)
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The idea that a particular quantity is not changed when certain things happen; eg in an elastic collision, the total energy does not change, so we say that such a collision conserves energy, and we have a law of conservation of energy.
Relations
- broader:
- (en) Property
- references:
- (en) Elastic collision
- referenced:
- (en) Conserve
- (en) Noether's theorem
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