magnetic potential

noun

, Electricity.

1. a scalar quantity, analogous to the electric potential, defined at each point in a given magnetic field to be equal to the work done in bringing a unit north pole from infinity to the point.

Example Sentences

The essential idea of the experiment is to use microwaves at about 29 GHz to resonantly drive transitions from trapped to un-trapped states as anti-atoms traverse the bottom of the magnetic potential well.

From Nature

And if by the mechanical action of heat, brought to bear by means of a suitable machine, the sphere be torn from the magnet and again placed at a distance, a power of exerting a pull through that distance, and producing a new motion of the sphere, is thereby conferred upon the magnet; in this sense, and in this sense only, is the heat converted into magnetic potential energy.

From Project Gutenberg