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Soumen Goswami (2446)

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The very concept of PE hinges on the existence of a conservative force. Only for conservative force does the idea of PE exist. For any two points in space the work done by conservative force is found to be the same always. This is assumed to be the decrement of a quantity we call PE.

For a non conservative force, the work done between two points will depend on the path and hence it can't be uniquely associated with the decrement of any quantity.

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