Potential (disambiguation)

Potential (from Latin potentia " power, might" ), also potential means ability to develop; an untapped opportunity for power development. The term is used in many fields:

Biology:

Action potential, transient, characteristic deviation of the membrane potential of a living cell from its resting potential
Membrane potential and the rest potential, electrochemical sizes of the membrane of living cells is measured in millivolts

Chemistry:

Chemical potential, thermodynamic quantity measured in Gibbs ( = J / mol)
Electrochemical potential, thermodynamic quantity of charged particles in electrochemistry, measured in Gibbs ( = J / mol)
Electrode potential size in electrochemistry, measured in volts

Grammar:

Potentialis, mode for the description of a possible action

Mathematics:

Potential function, a real-valued two times continuously differentiable, i.e., scalar function is a solution of Poisson's equation, for example, a scalar
Scalar, a scalar field whose gradient provides a vector field
Vector potential, a vector field whose rotation again delivers a vector field

Physics:

Electrical potential energy size, measured in volts ( = J / C ), see # electrostatics potential and voltage
Provides velocity potential and streaming potential, scalar field whose gradient the velocity vectors of fluid motion irrotational ( potential flow )
Gravitational potential energy size, measured in J / kg
Potential ( physics), assets of a conservative force field, to leave a specimen doing work (potential energy); alternatively, the scalar field that describes the ability of the force field
Thermodynamic potential, energetic size of thermodynamic systems, measured in joules

Economics:

Potential factor, one of the factors of production
Potential (game theory ), a special function on the set of strategy combinations of a game
Production potential macroeconomic term used to describe the production, which would be possible with full utilization of all factors of production