Potential Difference - the Full Definition

Potential difference is the total acceleration which exists between two positions in spacetime. The displacement may be derived from any form of energy.

The most well known potential difference is that potential difference of electrical energy known as voltage. Maximum gravity or acceleration at one height and minimum gravity or acceleration at another hight represent gravitational potential difference or total gravitational acceleration. It is the technological application recognised as 2 times natural magnitude.

Current physics magnitudes equal the amplifications of the technology which they calibrated by.

Examples

(1) The electrical potential difference, voltage:

V = W/(Q + q )

(2) The gravitational potential difference:

g = W/m * ( H + v * t ) , where H is a constant (start) height, and v is vertical velocity

= W/m * ( H + h ) , where h is a variable dimension

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