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Potential 1100 Words You Need

Potential 1100 Words You Need

/pəʊˈten.tʃəl/ (adj & noun)

Adjective: possible and likely to happen when all the necessary conditions exist, hypothetical, conceivable, thinkable, imaginable, probable

Noun: someone’s or something’s chance or ability to thrive and succeed, ability, capacity, possibility, likelihood, capability, aptitude

Common types of potential energy include the gravitational potential energy of an object that depends on its mass and its distance from the center of mass of another object, the elastic potential energy of an extended spring, and the electric potential energy of an electric charge in an electric field. The unit for energy in the International System of Units (SI) is the joule, which has the symbol J.

The term potential energy was introduced by the 19th-century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine, although it has links to Greek philosopher Aristotle’s concept of potentiality. Potential energy is associated with forces that act on a body in a way that the total work done by these forces on the body depends only on the initial and final positions of the body in space. These forces, that are called conservative forces, can be represented at every point in space by vectors expressed as gradients of a certain scalar function called potential.

Since the work of potential forces acting on a body that moves from a start to an end position is determined only by these two positions, and does not depend on the trajectory of the body, there is a function known as potential that can be evaluated at the two positions to determine this work.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/

Antonym: unlikely

Noun: potentiality

Adverb: potentially

Farsi: ولتاژ، عامل بالقوه ، بالقوه ، عامل ، بالفعل ، ذخيره اى ، پنهانى ، داراى استعداد نهانى ، پتانسيل


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