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Hunt4Higgs
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Yet another quick one I bet one of you will be able to explain in twenty seconds.
Going over Electric on my own and I've come across the basics of Potential Difference, when looking at it between points (not in a field) it is defined as electric potentials being different at two points creates a potential difference which allows the flow from one point to the other. Potential difference is represented by "V" in both of my textbooks (I know it is U in other places).
Now skipping ahead slightly and I meet Electric Potential in a field. Also denoted by "V". Is this due to a relation between the two?
Is it as simple as Potential Difference is a change in Electrical Potential between the two points (a difference of V between the two points?), so you "could" say it as V2 - V1? Hence why they are both called V?
As a similar point, are the equations for the types of P.d different due to looking at different "systems", i.e. when the equation V=IR is used, this is because you are looking at a conductor which will have a voltage drop associated with it?
Whereas when you are looking at an electrical field, the equation V=Q/4∏εr is used because...?
Cheers guys/girls. :)
Going over Electric on my own and I've come across the basics of Potential Difference, when looking at it between points (not in a field) it is defined as electric potentials being different at two points creates a potential difference which allows the flow from one point to the other. Potential difference is represented by "V" in both of my textbooks (I know it is U in other places).
Now skipping ahead slightly and I meet Electric Potential in a field. Also denoted by "V". Is this due to a relation between the two?
Is it as simple as Potential Difference is a change in Electrical Potential between the two points (a difference of V between the two points?), so you "could" say it as V2 - V1? Hence why they are both called V?
As a similar point, are the equations for the types of P.d different due to looking at different "systems", i.e. when the equation V=IR is used, this is because you are looking at a conductor which will have a voltage drop associated with it?
Whereas when you are looking at an electrical field, the equation V=Q/4∏εr is used because...?
Cheers guys/girls. :)