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Conservative force?

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Stopping power is really a force, but not a conservative force. It is like the braking force acting on a bullet shot through wood from a gun: all the energy is converted to heat and cannot be recovered!HPaul (talk) 17:27, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]