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  2. Negative energy - Wikipedia

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    Negative energy is a concept used in physics to explain the nature of certain fields, ... Gravitational energy, or gravitational potential energy, is the potential ...

  3. Membrane potential - Wikipedia

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    For such typical negative membrane potentials, positive work is required to move a positive charge from the interior to the exterior. However, thermal kinetic energy allows ions to overcome the potential difference. For a selectively permeable membrane, this permits a net flow against the gradient. This is a kind of osmosis.

  4. Electric potential - Wikipedia

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    The electric potential and the magnetic vector potential together form a four-vector, so that the two kinds of potential are mixed under Lorentz transformations. Practically, the electric potential is a continuous function in all space, because a spatial derivative of a discontinuous electric potential yields an electric field of impossibly ...

  5. Depolarization - Wikipedia

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    Depolarization is the process by which the membrane potential becomes less negative, facilitating the generation of an action potential. [6] For this rapid change to take place within the interior of the cell, several events must occur along the plasma membrane of the cell.

  6. Chemical potential - Wikipedia

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    i.e., the external potential is the sum of electric potential, gravitational potential, etc. (where q and m are the charge and mass of the species, V ele and h are the electric potential [15] and height of the container, respectively, and g is the acceleration due to gravity). The internal chemical potential includes everything else besides the ...

  7. Zeta potential - Wikipedia

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    Zeta potential is the electrical potential at the slipping plane. This plane is the interface which separates mobile fluid from fluid that remains attached to the ...

  8. Zero-energy universe - Wikipedia

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    The first known publication on the topic was in 1973, when Edward Tryon proposed in the journal Nature that the universe emerged from a large-scale quantum fluctuation of vacuum energy, resulting in its positive mass-energy being exactly balanced by its negative gravitational potential energy. [4]

  9. Action potential - Wikipedia

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    The resting potential prior to the action potential is typically −90mV, somewhat more negative than typical neurons. The muscle action potential lasts roughly 2–4 ms, the absolute refractory period is roughly 1–3 ms, and the conduction velocity along the muscle is roughly 5 m/s.