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One point before we go on to many-dimensional motion. We have shown that energy is conserved, but why is it that momentum is not conserved in this case? After all, in the previous chapter we showed that for an isolated system of particles, Newton’s third law implies that total momentum does not change. The answer is that we have left something out of the system—namely, the object that exerts the force on the one-dimensional particle.
