The key idea is that, if a vector field is conservative, then it has curl 0. Equivalently, if the curl is not 0, then the field is not conservative. But if we find that the curl is 0, that on its own doesn't mean the field is conservative.
Horizontal Lines A horizontal line is a line whose equation is of the form =, where is a real number. All points that lie on the line have a -coordinate of . The slope of any horizontal line is zero, 0.