Lennard-Jones potential (981 bytes)
1: ... the so-called '''Lennard-Jones potential''' (L-J potential).
3: ...the physical properties of the molecules, the L-J potential may be used to calculate an approximation for the...
5: The L-J potential is of the form
15: [[sl:Lennard-Jonesov potencial]]

John Lennard-Jones (7507 bytes)
1: '''John Edward Lennard-Jones''' ([[October 27]], [[1894]] - [[November 1]], [[...
3: Lennard-Jones is well-known among scientists for his work on [[...
7: ...stry]] awards a Lennard-Jones Medal and hosts the Lennard-Jones lecture each year. The name of LJ fluid (a [[Java...
9: ...tum chemistry]]) that had been given in Britain'. Lennard-Jones’s private papers are held at Churchill Archives C...
11: Lennard-Jones married Kathleen Lennard in 1925. They had two ch...

Barry Jones, Baron Jones (933 bytes)

Potential well (1564 bytes)
1: ...re, body may not proceed to the global minimum of potential energy, as it would naturally tend to do due to [...
3: ...agined to [[teleport]] ''through'' the walls of a potential well.
5: ...ace in a landscape of hills and valleys. Then a ''potential well'' would be a valley surrounded on all sides ...
7: ...vity]], the region around a mass is a gravitional potential well, unless the density of the mass is so low th...
10: *[[Potential_energy#Graphical_representation|Graphical represe...

Potential (2933 bytes)
1: ... that the vector field is the [[gradient]] of the potential (possibly multiplied by a constant).
3: .... The most common example is the magnetic vector potential '''A''', where the [[magnetic field]] '''B''' is ...
5: ...y observable field is a spatial derivative of its potential, adding an arbitrary constant field to it—a...
7: ...to [[Aharonov-Bohm effect]]s where an effect of a potential is observable even in regions where the correspon...
9: ... by the field is -1 times the [[gradient]] of the potential energy (so that the system is pushed towards a lo...

Potential function (262 bytes)
1: The term '''potential function''' can mean more than one thing.
3: ...ematical function]] whose values are a physical [[potential]].

Pacemaker potential (265 bytes)
1: [[Pacemaker potential]] is the voltage created by impulses from an arti...
3: ...[[threshold potential]] and initiates an [[action potential]].

Threshold potential (150 bytes)
1: ...brane must be depolarized to initiate an [[action potential]].

Gravitational potential (610 bytes)
1: ...n in a [[gravitational field]]. The gravitational potential of an object of mass ''m'' relative to a point ma...
7: ...spherically symmetrical, e.g. the Earth, then the potential is the same as that of a point object having the ...

Potential evaporation (456 bytes)
1: ...ll affect this. A dryland is a place where annual potential evaporation exceeds annual precipitation.

Potential theory (8275 bytes)
1: '''Potential theory''' may be defined as the study of [[harmon...
5: ...valid as a limiting case. Nevertheless, the term "potential theory" has remained as a convenient term for des...
7: ... of harmonic functions would be said to belong to potential theory whilst a result on how the solution depend...
11: ...his means that the fundamental object of study in potential theory is a linear space of functions. This obser...
23: ...complex analysis are special cases of theorems of potential theory in any dimension, one can obtain a feel fo...

Receptor potential (455 bytes)
1: [[Receptor potential]] is the [[transmembrane potential difference]] of a [[sensory cell]].
3: ... towards the threshold for triggering an [[action potential]].

Potential output (930 bytes)
1: ...our [[technology]] and our [[management]] skills. Potential output in macroeconomics corresponds to one point...
3: ...l gross domestic product]]." If the economy is at potential, the [[unemployment]] rate equals the [[NAIRU]] o...

Reversal potential (1479 bytes)
1: Reversal potential is the following:
2: ...otential difference|reversal potential]] is the [[potential difference]] across a [[reversible cell]].
3: ...ant permeabilities to more than one ion, the cell potential can be calculated from the [[Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz...
6: *[[Electrochemical potential]]
7: *[[Cell potential]]

Potential energy (7090 bytes)
1: ..., or '''E_p'''), a kind of [[scalar]] [[potential]], is [[energy]] by virtue of [[matter]] being ab...
5: === Gravitational potential energy ===
16: ...center of the sphere, then outside the sphere the potential energy relative to that at the center has two ter...
26: ...e source is approximated as a [[point mass]], the potential energy simplifies to:
32: === Elastic potential energy ===

Potential difference (6264 bytes)
1: ...'''potential difference''' is the difference in [[potential]] between two points in a [[Conservation_law|cons...
5: ... the initial and final points of an electrostatic potential.
9: ... is equal to the difference in their [[electrical potential]]s.
11: ...system of units, potential difference, electrical potential and electromotive force are measured in [[volt]]s...
13: The potential difference between two points a and b is the [[li...

Morse potential (590 bytes)
1: ...hilip M. Morse]], is a convenient model for the [[potential energy]] of a [[diatomic molecule]]. It is of the...
5: ...), and <math>a</math> controls the 'width' of the potential.

Action potential (11127 bytes)
1: ...ogy|electrophysiological]] recording of an action potential showing the various phases which occur as the wav...
3: ...changes that contract [[muscle]] cells, '''action potentials''' are an essential feature of [[animal]] life. ...
7: ... the same. But the speed and simplicity of action potentials vary significantly between cells, in particular ...
9: Minimally, an action potential involves a [[depolarization]], a [[repolarization...
12: ...ed, as occurs during the propagation of an action potential, charged entities, principally [[potassium|K<sup>...

Cell potential (3483 bytes)
1: ...[[action potential]]. Among other roles, the cell potential acts as a reservoir for metabolic energy, which c...
4: ...s therefore approximately equal to the [[reversal potential]] for potassium. [[NaKATPase|Sodium-potassium exc...
7: ... and metabolites such as sugar. The transmembrane potential of the [[mitochondrial membrane|mitochondria]] dr...
9: ==Cell potential changes==
10: ...munication with other cells-- as with an [[action potential]] --or initiate changes inside the cell--this hap...

Electrochemical potential (3233 bytes)
1: ...represents one of many interchangeable forms of [[potential energy]] through which energy may be [[conservati...
3: ...to a specified [[concentration]] and [[electrical potential]].
5: ...the movement of electrically charged solutes, the potential is often expressed in units of [[volt]]s.
9: ... decided by the difference in its electrochemical potential on either side of the membrane, which arises from...
13: ...o sides of the membrane (i.e. the [[transmembrane potential]]).

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