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What is the difference between electric potential and electric field?

Electric Potential: Scalar quantity, like height. Electric Field: Vector quantity, like the slope of that height.

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What is the difference between electric potential and electric field?

Electric Potential: Scalar quantity, like height. Electric Field: Vector quantity, like the slope of that height.

Define electric potential.

Electric potential is the electric potential energy per unit charge at a point in space; measured in volts (V).

What is electric potential difference?

The change in electric potential energy per unit charge when moving a test charge between two points.

What is voltage?

Electric potential difference; the driving force behind electric current.

Define equipotential lines.

Lines that connect points of equal electric potential. No work is done moving a charge along these lines.

What do electric field vectors indicate?

The direction a positive test charge would move; they point in the direction of decreasing potential (from high to low).

What is the difference between electric potential and electric field?

Electric Potential: Scalar, like height. | Electric Field: Vector, like the slope of that height.