Concept — Potential energy per unit charge at a point of the field.
Present in chapters
14
Linked atoms
29 linked atoms.
13 Coulomb’s force and electrostatics
- Problem — Given V, find q
- Problem — Reading the V(r) graph of a point charge
- Problem — Potential of a negative charge
14 Electric field and potential
- From the field to the spherical radius
- From the graph to the sign of the charges
- From potential to field: the gradient
- From potential to charge
- Definition of potential
- Potential difference and work
- Cloud-to-ground potential difference
- Draw the equipotentials
- Drill: work in moving a charge
- Drill: potential at the midpoint
- Two connected conducting spheres
- Two ways to compute the field
- Perpendicular equipotentials and field lines
- Sci-fi physics — electrostatics in 2D
- The shock in the car and the Faraday cage
- Field lines do not cross
- Potential of two charges at the midpoint
- Potential of a 10 nC charge
- Potential of a point charge at 1 m
- Ranking potentials
- Resistors on a polyhedron
- Fermi estimate — electrostatic shock
- Equipotential surfaces
- The circulation theorem
- True or false on field and potential