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classical mechanics aspects > conservation law

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conservation law  

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  • In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time. Exact conservation laws include conservation of mass and energy, conservation of linear momentum, conservation of angular momentum, and conservation of electric charge. There are also many approximate conservation laws, which apply to such quantities as mass, parity, lepton number, baryon number, strangeness, hypercharge, etc. These quantities are conserved in certain classes of physics processes, but not in all. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_law)

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