New posts in Potential Energy

How can a rigid body's weight do work on it to make it rotate?

Is mechanical energy conserved in all Inertial frames? (Newtonian Mechanics)

Lagrangian potential for Newtonian gravity

Bertrand's theorem and nearly-circular motion in a Yukawa potential

Are there non-constant potentials that result in eigenstates of the Hamiltonian that are all plane waves?

Is it possible for a system to have negative potential energy?

Potential energy of a spring vs potential energy of the spring-mass system

Do Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics have different definitions of internal energy?

Energy conservation on cornering bicycle

Gravity, matter vs antimatter