Types Of Potential Energy Including Gravitational, Elastic, Chemical, Electrical, And Nuclear Potential Energy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In physics, potential energy is the energy stored in a body or in a system due to its position in a force field or due t... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.

In physics, potential energy is the energy stored in a body or in a system due to its position in a force field or due to its configuration. The SI unit of measure for energy and work is the Joule (symbol J). The term "potential energy" was coined by the 19th century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine. Potential energy is energy that is stored within a system. It exists when there is a force that tends to pull an object back towards some lower energy position. This force is often called a restoring force. The potential energy is a function of the state a system is in, and is defined relative to that for a particular state. This book studies types of potential energy including gravitational constant, linear elasticity, mechanical equilibrium, and electric potential, electric charge.

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