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2. It's a good analogy. Waterfall are falling because of gravitational potential energy, just like an electron would fall when put in an electric field. At con
by logtempo 5mo ago
2. It's a good analogy. Waterfall are falling because of gravitational potential energy, just like an electron would fall when put in an electric field.
At constant height, a dam on the moon have less potential energy than an actual dam.
And gravity is a potential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_potential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_potential "It is analogous to the electric potential with mass playing the role of charge."
- Neywiny 5mo agoIf you read the Wikipedia you linked you'll see that gravitational potential != gravity. So no. If the author had said voltage is analogous to gravitational potential, sure. But they didn't. They said gravity. Here's the page for gravity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity which brings with stating gravity is a force. Not a potential.