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Conservative and Non-Conservative Forces

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About these materials

MIT's own material for this topic, in MIT's order: Lesson 22: Conservative and Non-Conservative Forces [22.1-22.5].

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Order: the items appear in the order MIT's own session page lists them; the sessions follow MIT's sequence. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

22.1 Path Independence - Gravity

MIT 8.01SC · Week 7: Kinetic Energy and Work · This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

  1. 22.1 Path Independence - GravityLecture video · transcript Watch

22.2 Path Dependence - Friction

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  1. 22.2 Path Dependence - FrictionLecture video · transcript Watch

22.3 Conservative Forces

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  1. 22.3 Conservative ForcesLecture video · transcript Watch

22.4 Non-Conservative Forces

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  1. 22.4 Non-Conservative ForcesLecture video · transcript Watch

22.5 Summary of Work and Kinetic Energy

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  1. 22.5 Summary of Work and Kinetic EnergyLecture video · transcript Watch

MIT's problem set

Problem Set 7

MIT places Problem Set 7 at the end of Week 7: Kinetic Energy and Work; it covers the whole part, not only this topic. Problem Set 7 on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

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Where this sits in MIT 8.01SC

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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic, 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2016 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

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