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Potential Function


The term used in physics and engineering for a harmonic function. Potential functions are extremely useful, for example, in electromagnetism, where they reduce the study of a 3-component vector field to a 1-component scalar function.


See also

Harmonic Function, Laplace's Equation, Scalar Potential, Vector Potential

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Potential Function." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PotentialFunction.html

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