Posted by member of physics on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at 12:37am.
In an isolated system where only conservative forces cause energy changes, the kinetic energy and potential energy of the system can change, but the mechanical energy of the system cannot change.
The work done by a conservative force on a particle moving between two points must depend on the path taken by the particle.
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