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authorPreston Pan <preston@nullring.xyz>2024-01-24 19:26:59 -0800
committerPreston Pan <preston@nullring.xyz>2024-01-24 19:26:59 -0800
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ A conservative force has this property:
\end{align*}
In other words, work done by \(\vec{f}\) is path independent, because in any closed loop integral,
you go from point \(\vec{a}\) to point \(\vec{b}\) and then back. If these forwards and backwards
-paths end up canceling no matter what path you take, then it is clear that \(\vec{f}\) will do the
+paths end up canceling no matter what path you take, then it is clear that \(\vec{f}\) will be the
same amount of force no matter what path you take. Using Stokes' theorem:
\begin{align*}
\int_{S}(\vec{\nabla} \times \vec{f}) \cdot d\vec{a} = \oint\vec{f} \cdot d\vec{l}