Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability. The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate...

An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific cell rapidly rises and falls. This depolarization then causes adjacent locations to...

In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge...

In thermodynamics, the chemical potential of a species is the energy that can be absorbed or released due to a change of the particle number of the given...

Electric potential (also called the electric field potential, potential drop, the electrostatic potential) is defined as the amount of work energy needed...

Membrane potential (also transmembrane potential or membrane voltage) is the difference in electric potential between the interior and the exterior of...

In fluid dynamics, potential flow or irrotational flow refers to a description of a fluid flow with no vorticity in it. Such a description typically arises...

Look up potential or potentially in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability, in a wide variety of...

In classical mechanics, the gravitational potential is a scalar field associating with each point in space the work (energy transferred) per unit mass...

In quantum mechanics the delta potential is a potential well mathematically described by the Dirac delta function - a generalized function. Qualitatively...