Types of Potential Energy Including Gravitational, Elastic, Chemical, Electric, and Nuclear Potential Energy (Paperback)

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. The term "potential energy" was coined by the 19th century Scottish engineer and physicist William Rankine. The potential energy is a function of the state a system is in, and is defined relative to that for a particular state. This reference state is not always a real state, it may also be a limit, such as with the distances between all bodies tending to infinity, provided that the energy involved in tending to that limit is finite, such as in the case of inverse-square law forces. This book studies various types of potential energy including gravitational energy, elasticity, Hooke's law, electric potential, and nuclear power. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.