conservation laws and symmetries of the physical world The symmetries of physical world directly lead to the conservation laws. In the Table CV shown below some symmetry operations and their associated conservation laws are shown.
Table - CV. Symmetry operations and associated conservation laws
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Symmetry operation Conserved quantity |
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translation in space linear momentum |
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translation in time energy |
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rotation in space angular momentum |
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electromagnetic gauge transformation electric charge |