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justinmsk

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Describe a conservative force.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In deriving the axial electric field for the ring-shaped charge distribution and the electric field from a long line of charge, the component perpendicular to the resulting field is zero because of what physical property?
 
  A)
 
  only net charge is important
  B)
 
  positive and negative charges cancel
  C)
 
  superposition
  D)
 
  integration
  E)
 
  symmetry



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Answer to Question 1

A force is conservative force if the work done by the force on an object moving from one point to another depends only on the initial and final positions of the object, and is independent of the particular path taken.
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A force is conservative if the net work done by the force on an object moving around any closed path is zero.

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justinmsk

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Reply 2 on: Jul 29, 2018
:D TYSM


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