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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematical_physics">mathematical physics</a>, <b>scalar potential</b> describes the situation where the difference in the <a href="page.php?w=potential_energy">potential energies</a> of an object in two different <a href="page.php?w=position_%28geometry%29">positions</a> depends only on the positions, not upon the path taken by the object in traveling from one position to the other.  It is a <a href="page.php?w=scalar_field">scalar field</a> in <a href="page.php?w=three-space">three-space</a>:  a directionless value (<a href="page.php?w=Scalar_%28mathematics%29">scalar</a>)</p><p>
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