the most general form of an exact conservation law is given by a continuity equation. For example, conservation of electric charge iswhere is the divergence operator, is the density of (amount per unit volume), is the flux of (amount crossing a unit area in unit time), and is time.

If we assume that the motion u of the charge is a continuous function of position and time, then

In one space dimension this can be put into the form of a

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