Timeline for What was the historical motivation for introducing the concept 'gravitational potential'?
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| Jul 27, 2022 at 10:42 | comment | added | Cleonis | I notice that in this answer potential energy is referred to as a 'scalar quantity'. However, potential energy has the following in common with force: separate value for each degree of freedom. In order to make use of potential energy one must specify the component value for each degree of freedom, usually done in the form of indexed notation. In that sense potential energy is a vector quantity. (A difference: the force vector has an inherent zero point, whereas potential energy does not have an inherent zero point. As we know: for potential energy the choice of zero point is arbitrary.) | |
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| S Jul 23, 2022 at 2:01 | history | answered | Cloud | CC BY-SA 4.0 |