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conservation of momentum comparison table

Subject is a kind of has conserved quantity has definition

conservation law law A quantity that remains unchanged in the course of the evolution of a dynamical system. There are seven known quantities that are conserved: energy (including mass), momentum, angular momentum (including spin), charge, electron-family number, muon-family number, and baryon-family number.

conservation of momentum conservation law momentum The principle that the linear momentum of a system (in Newtonian mechanics, mass times velocity) remains the same as long as no external force acts.

Subject	is a kind of	has conserved quantity	has definition
conservation law	law		A quantity that remains unchanged in the course of the evolution of a dynamical system. There are seven known quantities that are conserved: energy (including mass), momentum, angular momentum (including spin), charge, electron-family number, muon-family number, and baryon-family number.
conservation of momentum	conservation law	momentum	The principle that the linear momentum of a system (in Newtonian mechanics, mass times velocity) remains the same as long as no external force acts.

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