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  • finite potential well (also known as the finite square well) is a concept from quantum mechanics. It is an extension of the infinite potential well, in which...
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    the particle in a box model (also known as the infinite potential well or the infinite square well) describes the movement of a free particle in a small...
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  • therefore follows an inverse square law: | a | = G M x 2 . {\displaystyle |\mathbf {a} |={\frac {GM}{x^{2}}}.} The potential associated with a mass distribution...
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  • Thumbnail for Rectangular potential barrier
    In quantum mechanics, the rectangular (or, at times, square) potential barrier is a standard one-dimensional problem that demonstrates the phenomena of...
    13 KB (2,664 words) - 15:36, 22 April 2024
  • Similarly, if the semicircular potential well is a finite well, the solution will resemble that of the finite potential well where the angular operators...
    7 KB (906 words) - 06:20, 2 November 2022
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    depolarize. Action potentials occur in several types of excitable cells, which include animal cells like neurons and muscle cells, as well as some plant cells...
    149 KB (16,425 words) - 18:40, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ramsauer–Townsend effect
    simple model for the phenomenon that considers the atom as a finite square potential well. Predicting from theory the kinetic energy that will produce a Ramsauer–Townsend...
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  • Thumbnail for Electric potential
    Electric potential (also called the electric field potential, potential drop, the electrostatic potential) is defined as the amount of work energy needed...
    18 KB (2,246 words) - 00:06, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
    The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, lasting...
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  • Thumbnail for Particle in a spherically symmetric potential
    In quantum mechanics, a spherically symmetric potential is a system of which the potential only depends on the radial distance from the spherical center...
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    Lennard-Jones potential (also termed the LJ potential or 12-6 potential; named for John Lennard-Jones) is an intermolecular pair potential. Out of all the...
    88 KB (10,551 words) - 15:13, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Potential energy
    In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge...
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  • Thumbnail for Potential flow
    Hele-Shaw flows. The potential flow approach occurs in the modeling of both stationary as well as nonstationary flows. Applications of potential flow include:...
    34 KB (5,224 words) - 09:25, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Membrane potential
    Membrane potential (also transmembrane potential or membrane voltage) is the difference in electric potential between the interior and the exterior of...
    64 KB (7,870 words) - 00:39, 4 June 2024
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    distance fluctuation criterion for melting: Comparison of square-well and Morse Potential models for clusters and homopolymers". J. Chem. Phys. 116 (5):...
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  • Thumbnail for Quantum well
    A quantum well is a potential well with only discrete energy values. The classic model used to demonstrate a quantum well is to confine particles, which...
    42 KB (6,124 words) - 23:54, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic four-potential
    four-potential is a relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric scalar potential and...
    9 KB (1,142 words) - 13:43, 3 April 2024
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    the potential for methane to seep into the water. Very early neolithic wells are known from the Eastern Mediterranean: The oldest reliably dated well is...
    48 KB (6,094 words) - 16:12, 27 May 2024
  • An evoked potential or evoked response is an electrical potential in a specific pattern recorded from a specific part of the nervous system, especially...
    42 KB (5,213 words) - 04:44, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interatomic potential
    expansion, and elastic and plastic material behavior, as well as chemical reactions. Interatomic potentials can be written as a series expansion of functional...
    59 KB (7,343 words) - 16:42, 5 May 2024
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