Conservation Laws Why they are so powerful
Newton’s Laws show how to describe the motion of every object
- Determined by the FORCES acting on each object at a each time t.
- Newton’s 2nd Law gives the ACCELERATION at time t.
- Acceleration determines how the velocity and position of the object will change at time t.
- VERY complicated to apply to most problems !
What can be known without finding all the details?
Can any predictions of future behavior be made?
- Yes.. conservation laws allow us to make important conclusions without knowing any details!