Back تقييد كمومي Arabic Потенциална яма Bulgarian Pou de potencial Catalan Potenciálová jáma Czech Potentialtopf German Pozo de potencial Spanish چاه پتانسیل Persian Potentiaalikuoppa Finnish Puits de potentiel French בור פוטנציאל HE
A potential well is the region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy. Energy captured in a potential well is unable to convert to another type of energy (kinetic energy in the case of a gravitational potential well) because it is captured in the local minimum of a potential well. Therefore, a body may not proceed to the global minimum of potential energy, as it would naturally tend to do due to entropy.