Re: Non-conservative forces

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

I typoed yet again.
> go to www.wolfram.com and enter "conservative force fields" in their
> search machine (upper right).

should read:
"go to www.wolfram.com and enter "conservative vector fields" in their
search machine (upper right)."                               *********

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Non-conservative forces


| Agreed!
| Reserve the term "conservative force" to mean a force on a body which is
| specified as an irrotational function of the object's position (ie.;
curl
| = 0).
| For support of the term "conservative vector fields" as a general
| mathematical concept,
| go to www.wolfram.com and enter "conservative force fields" in their
| search machine (upper right).