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My impression is that the definition of a `Conservative Force' is
that `The Work done by a Conservative Force when going around any
closed loop is zero (\oint\vec{F}\dot\vec{dr}=0).
This then implies that it can be written as the gradient of a
function (called -U where U is called the Potential Energy function
for that force.
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