This document summarizes key concepts from a lecture on basic conservation laws in meteorology. It discusses:
1) Conservation of momentum, including Newton's second law of motion and how it relates to forces acting on a fluid. It also covers transforming the momentum equation to a rotating reference frame.
2) Conservation of mass through the continuity equation. For large-scale atmospheric motions, the continuity equation can be approximated by assuming incompressibility.
3) Conservation of energy through the first law of thermodynamics. Heat added to or removed from an air parcel results in changes to its internal energy, temperature, and volume. The energy equation can be used to infer vertical motions in the atmosphere.