creators_name: Snyder, Douglas M.
type: journalp
datestamp: 1999-11-17
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:20
metadata_visibility: show
title: On the Conservation of Physical Quantities
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: conservation laws in physics, physical quantities, energy, angular momentum, linear momentum, invariance, system transformations, physical reality, imagined rotations, Shepard, Cooper
abstract: Certain transformations of isolated physical systems underlying various conservation laws in physics are noted. As regards each of these transformations, there is a theoretical action that is equivalent to a matched physical action on the system. Evidence supporting this thesis is found in experimental psychological research where results of various experiments allow that the imagined rotation of an object is analogous to a physical rotation. The conservation laws based on the transformations noted are theoretical or mental in nature to the same extent that they are physical. When one of the conservation principles noted is tested by carrying out the relevant transformation on the system, this test is essentially one of the influence of mental activity on physical reality.
date: 1985
date_type: published
publication: Perceptual and Motor Skills
volume: 60
pagerange: 754
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Snyder, Douglas M.  (1985) On the Conservation of Physical Quantities.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/836/3/conser.pdf