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Electrostatic Potential and Potential Energy
Physics · Chapter 3 · Units 1-2: Electrostatics and Current Electricity
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- Electric potential and potential difference (V = W/q0); equipotential surfaces and their properties
- Potential due to a point charge (derivation); graphs of E and V against r
- Potential due to a system of charges and due to a dipole (axial, equatorial and general point for a short dipole)
- Potential energy of a charge in a field (U = qV); potential energy of systems of two and three point charges
- Potential energy of a dipole in a uniform field U = -p.E; special cases at 0, 90 and 180 degrees