nonconservative
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1. nonconservative - Noun
2. nonconservative - Adjective
Meaning
nonconservative (not comparable)
Not conservative.
nonconservative (plural nonconservatives)
A person who is not a conservative.
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Nonconservative forces Nonconservative forces can arise in classical physics due to neglected degrees of freedom or from time-dependent potentials.
Nonconservative forces For certain physical scenarios, it is impossible to model forces as being due to gradient of potentials.
Conservative forces are equivalent to the gradient of a potential while nonconservative forces are not.
For macroscopic systems the nonconservative approximation is far easier to deal with than millions of degrees of freedom.
In macroscopic closed systems, nonconservative forces act to change the internal energies of the system, and are often associated with the transfer of heat.