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Re: Why work before energy in texts

From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:46:15 -0400

At 01:29 PM 10/16/01 -0400, Joe Heafner wrote:

with a suitable choice of *system*,
nonconservative forces can be made to vanish can they not?

I don't think so. That would be very surprising.

Start with an electron in a time-varying magnetic field; I don't see any
halfway-reasonable choices that make the non-potential voltage vanish.

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