Potential Energy -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Potential Energy

For a force F with path element , the potential energy is defined as the path integral Eric Weisstein's World of Math

(1)

Let A be a vector field, then

(2)

For a system of particles,

(3)

where is constant for a rigid body.

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