Pneumatic tool Pneumatic tool A pneumatic tool, air tool, air-powered tool or pneumatic-powered tool is a type of power tool, driven by compressed air, supplied by an air compressor. Pneumatic tools can also be driven by compressed carbon dioxide () stored in small cylinders allowing for portability. Most pneumatic tools convert the compressed air to work using a pneumatic motor. Compared to their electric power tool equivalents, they are safer to run and maintain, without risk of sparks, short-circuiting or electrocution, and have a higher power to weight ratio, allowing a smaller, lighter tool to accomplish the same task. Furthermore, they are
Potential energy the negative of this scalar field so that work by the force field decreases potential energy, that is In this case, the application of the del operator to the work function yields, and the force F is said to be "derivable from a potential." This also necessarily implies that F must be a conservative vector field. The potential "U" defines a force F at every point x in space, so the set of forces is called a force field. Given a force field F(x), evaluation of the work integral using the gradient theorem can be used to find the scalar