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...

An evoked potential or evoked response is an electrical potential in a specific pattern recorded from a specific part of the nervous system, especially...

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...

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

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

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

electrophysiology, the threshold potential is the critical level to which a membrane potential must be depolarized to initiate an action potential. In neuroscience,...

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

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

A potential superpower is a state or other polity that is speculated to be or have the potential to become a superpower, a state or supranational union...

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

Redox potential (also known as oxidation / reduction potential, ORP, pe, E r e d {\displaystyle E_{red}} , or E h {\displaystyle E_{h}} ) is a measure...

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

A velocity potential is a scalar potential used in potential flow theory. It was introduced by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1788. It is used in continuum...

membrane potential (or resting voltage), as opposed to the specific dynamic electrochemical phenomena called action potential and graded membrane potential. Apart...

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...

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

Contact potential may refer to: Contact potential, a voltage generated; See Electromotive force Galvani potential, at a junction of two metals Volta potential...

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

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

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

In mathematics, the Newtonian potential or Newton potential is an operator in vector calculus that acts as the inverse to the negative Laplacian, on functions...

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

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

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