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3.3 Conservation of energy and momentum There is a class of physical quantities that easily lend themselves to graphic visualizatioin and understanding. They are called extensive quantities or substance-like quantities. Among them are mass, energy, momentum, electrical charge, entropy, amount of data and others. Each one of these quantities can be imagined as a kind of substance or fluid. The word “imagine” means that when speaking about them, the same vocabulary that is used in every-day life to account for substances can be applied. One indicator that a quantity X is substance-like,