Timeline for Electric potential and electric potential energy definitions
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| Sep 14, 2023 at 22:57 | comment | added | wbeaty | Exactly so. The Potentials are a feature of the e-field itself, not a feature of the test-charge, or of the stored energy. Improved definition: the potential is the line-integral of the e-field intensity. (See, no charges involved. Pure e-field.) Or this: the volt is the energy/charge ratio, when the charge approaches zero. We use an infinitesimal test-charge, rather than a one-coulomb unit charge. The energy is zero, while the potentials involved can be immense, and unrelated to test-charge stored energy. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 13:16 | history | answered | garyp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |