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Formation of a Potential Well: Mass & Wave Interaction
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[QUOTE="collinsmark, post: 5478895, member: 114325"] It is for a gravitational well! :woot: That is also a potential well that is used when discussing gravity. If the discussion involves orbiting celestial bodies, for example, then yes, the potential wells are a result of bodies' masses*. *(technically the bodies' energies, if you take it as far as general relatively [GR] --mass is just another form of energy in GR. [Edit: although gravitational potential energy doesn't necessarily count the same way as other energies in GR. But now we're moving away from the classical "well" idea, so I'll stop here. The well idea works fine though if you treat gravitational potential energy in the Newtonian context, forming a gravitational potential well.]) In my previous post I was talking about quantum theory, which ignores gravity. Quantum mechanics (QM) does deal with potential wells caused by any of the other three fundamental forces however. [/QUOTE]
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