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Re: [Phys-L] defining energy



On 10/30/2013 06:00 PM, Richard Tarara wrote:
I'm sure someone will provide an incomprehensible (to 11th graders)
more formal definition! ;-)

How about this, just in time for Halloween:

Energy is the conserved quantity corresponding via
Noether's theorem to time-translation invariance.