Timeline for Does mechanical energy means total energy?
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| Mar 10 at 18:55 | comment | added | Albertus Magnus | "total energy of a system is equal to the kinetic energy plus the potential energy" doesn't hold true in mechanics generally, e.g. curvilinear coordinates may give rise to mechanical energies that differ from the total energy. | |
| Mar 10 at 18:47 | history | answered | trula | CC BY-SA 4.0 |