independence of path
Americannoun
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By independence of path, the total amount of work done by gravity on each of the hikers is the same because they all started in the same place and ended in the same place.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
To visualize what independence of path means, imagine three hikers climbing from base camp to the top of a mountain.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
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