Fats are the most concentrated form of potential energy of all the different types of organic compounds which are elaborated by plants.
Carbon dioxide and water must be decomposed by the energy thus absorbed, and the nascent gases thus produced combined into some synthetic organic compound, with a resultant storage of potential energy.
The catalyzer plays the same role in a chemical transformation as does the minimal exciting force which sets free the accumulation of potential energy previous to its transformation into kinetic energy.
This conception brings life into line with other catalytic actions, and shows us a living being as a store of potential energy, to be set free by an external stimulus which may also excite sensation.
It is the small amount of work required to turn the key which liberates an indeterminate quantity of potential energy.
Potential energy is slumbering energy, energy localized or locked up in the body.
The oxygen and hydrogen now have potential energy, and, if they be allowed to combine, this will manifest itself as the light and heat of the explosion.
The muscles of my arm contain a store of potential energy.
For him a residue of potential energy remains, vast, truly, in relation to the life and wants of an individual, but exceedingly minute in comparison with the earth's primitive store.
The former is dynamic energy, the latter is potential energy, the constancy of the sum of both being affirmed by the law of conservation.
Wherever two atoms capable of uniting together by their mutual attractions exist separately, they form a store of potential energy.
A body cast upwards consumes the actual energy of projection, and lays up potential energy.
But in a sub-tonic tissue, stimulus induces an effect which is precisely the opposite; instead of a depletion, there is an enhancement of potential energy of the system.
Hence on cessation of moderate stimulation the increase of potential energy, associated with A-change, finds expression in enhancement of the rate of growth.
It is now believed that the heat energy that disappears when a body melts has been transformed into the potential energy of partially separated molecules.
The vapor rising into the air is condensed into clouds and rain, and falling on the mountain side, has, from its elevated position, potential energy.
It is a form of potential energy and it is believed to be due to the position of the atoms within the molecule.
According to this theory, then, the electrical energy in evidence in the current from the voltaic cell, is drawn from a store of potential energy in the atoms of matter composing the liquid in the cell.
The pent-up static electricity has, like the water in the reservoir, a store of potential energy.
Every stream, whatever its rate of flow, represents an enormous store of potential energy.
Thus every change in potential energy, such for example as occurs when two elements combine with evolution or absorption of heat, must be attended by a change in mass.
On the view we have been discussing the existence of potential energy due to an electric field is always associated with mass; wherever there is potential energy there is mass.
On the electro-magnetic theory of light, however, a wave of light is accompanied by electric forces, and therefore by potential energy; thus waves of light must behave as if they possessed mass.
A second condition of energy is energy at rest, or potential energy.
Potential energy in the form of chemical composition (coal) is supplied to the engine, and this energy is first liberated in the active form of heat and then is converted into the motion of the great fly-wheel.
A stone on the roof of a house is at rest, but by virtue of its position it has a certain amount of potential energy, since, if dislodged, it will fall to the ground, and thus develop energy of motion.
Electrification is, then, a sort of potential energy.
Energy, which is defined as the ability to do work, or to cause motion, exists in two general types, or forms, known as kinetic energy and as potential energy.
Potential energy is converted into heat and heat into motion.
It is easy to calculate the exhaustion of potential energy caused by the coming together of the matter of the sun from universal dispersion through infinite space to a sphere of uniform density of the present size of the sun.
When the weights are wound up, they have a certain amount of potential energy stored up, which will counteract the friction of the wheels and the resistance of the air on the pendulum.
Some individuals have a vast potential energy; that is to say, from their position and station in the social system, they have a power which is capable of producing work which a less exalted individual has not.
A ten pound weight supported one foot above a plane has ten foot pounds of potential energy.
Potential energy is the capacity for performing work which a body possesses by virtue of its position.
Potential energy may be defined as energy due to position, and kinetic energy, as energy due to momentum.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potential energy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
