volta potential difference
1Volta potential — (also called Volta potential difference, or contact potential difference, or outer potential difference, Δψ, delta psi) in electrochemistry, is the electric potential difference between two points ( 1 and 2 ) in the vacuum: point 1 close to the… …
2Volta , Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio — (1745–1827) Italian physicist Volta, who was born at Como in Italy, grew up in an atmosphere of aristocratic religiosity with almost all his male relations becoming priests. However, Volta decided early that his life s work lay in the study of… …
3Potential — *The mathematical study of potentials is known as potential theory; it is the study of harmonic functions on manifolds. This mathematical formulation arises from the fact that, in physics, the scalar potential is irrotational, and thus has a… …
4Absolute electrode potential — Absolute electrode potential, in electrochemistry, according to an IUPAC definition [ [http://goldbook.iupac.org/A00022.html IUPAC Gold Book absolute electrode potential ] ] , is the electrode potential of a metal measured with respect to a… …
5Contact potential — may refer to: Contact electrification Galvani potential difference (in electrochemistry, at a junction of two metals) Volta potential difference (in electrochemistry, between two points in vacuum near surfaces of two metals in contact) This… …
6volta effect — ˈvōltə , ˈvältə noun Usage: usually capitalized V Etymology: after Alessandro Volta died 1827 Italian physicist : the difference of potential observable between two dissimilar metals when placed in contact with one metal becoming positive and the …
7Electric potential — Electromagnetism Electricity · …
8Galvani potential — (also called Galvani potential difference, or inner potential difference, Δφ, delta phi) in electrochemistry, is the electric potential difference between two points in the bulk of two phases [ [http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/G02574.pdf IUPAC Gold …
9Electric potential energy — Electromagnetism Electricity · …
10Alessandro Volta — For the concept car, see Toyota Alessandro Volta. Alessandro Volta Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta Born …
