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...

economics, potential output (also referred to as "natural gross domestic product") refers to the highest level of real gross domestic product (potential output)...

a Yukawa potential (also called a screened Coulomb potential) is a potential named after the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa. The potential is of the...

Interatomic potentials are mathematical functions to calculate the potential energy of a system of atoms with given positions in space. Interatomic potentials are...

include diverse potentials such as receptor potentials, electrotonic potentials, subthreshold membrane potential oscillations, slow-wave potential, pacemaker...

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

A potential well is the region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy. Energy captured in a potential well is unable to convert to another type...

In electrodynamics, the retarded potentials are the electromagnetic potentials for the electromagnetic field generated by time-varying electric current...

The grand potential or Landau potential or Landau free energy is a quantity used in statistical mechanics, especially for irreversible processes in open...

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

mathematics and mathematical physics, potential theory is the study of harmonic functions. The term "potential theory" was coined in 19th-century physics...

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

Postsynaptic potentials are changes in the membrane potential of the postsynaptic terminal of a chemical synapse. Postsynaptic potentials are graded potentials, and...

vector calculus, a vector potential is a vector field whose curl is a given vector field. This is analogous to a scalar potential, which is a scalar field...

Magnetic potential may refer to: Magnetic vector potential, the vector whose curl is equal to the magnetic B field Magnetic scalar potential, the magnetic...

The potential temperature of a parcel of fluid at pressure P {\displaystyle P} is the temperature that the parcel would attain if adiabatically brought...

Synaptic potential refers to the potential difference across the postsynaptic membrane that results from the action of neurotransmitters at a neuronal...

The Volta potential (also called Volta potential difference, contact potential difference, outer potential difference, Δψ, or "delta psi") in electrochemistry...

membrane, the reversal potential is the membrane potential at which the direction of ionic current reverses. At the reversal potential, there is no net flow...

the Galvani potential (also called Galvani potential difference, or inner potential difference, Δφ, delta phi) is the electric potential difference between...

Water potential is the potential energy of water per unit volume relative to pure water in reference conditions. Water potential quantifies the tendency...

Potential evapotranspiration (PET) or potential evaporation (PE) is the amount of water that would be evaporated and transpired by a specific crop, soil...

also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points. In a...

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

In quantum mechanics and scattering theory, the one-dimensional step potential is an idealized system used to model incident, reflected and transmitted...

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...

In computational complexity theory, the potential method is a method used to analyze the amortized time and space complexity of a data structure, a measure...

A receptor potential, also known as a generator potential, a type of graded potential, is the transmembrane potential difference produced by activation...