What is electric potential and electric current?

When an electric charge is placed at a point in an electric field, it experiences an electric force acting on it. Work is required to move the electric charge in the electric field against this force. This charge is said to have an electric potential at that point.

Is electric potential and electrostatic potential same?

The electric potential (also called the electric field potential, potential drop, the electrostatic potential) is defined as the amount of work energy needed to move a unit of electric charge from a reference point to the specific point in an electric field. The electric potential at infinity is assumed to be zero.

What is the difference between electrostatic potential energy and electric potential and between electric potential difference and voltage?

We know that electrical potential energy is the work done in bringing a set of charges from infinity to a point opposite to electric field. And in electrostatic potential energy there is only one difference that here it is only one positive charge not a set. My question is that how their units are same, i.e. volt.

What is the electrical unit used for potential difference?

Unit of potential difference The unit of electric potential difference is volt. One volt can be defined as the potential difference between two points when one joule of energy is used to pass one coulomb of charge from one point to the other.

How to calculate electrical potential?

Electric Potential Formula The formula of electric potential is the product of charge of a particle to the electric potential. Potential energy = (charge of the particle) (electric potential) U = q × V

How are electric current and potential difference related?

What is the Relationship between Electric Current and Potential Difference? When an electric charge is placed at a point in an electric field, it experiences an electric force acting on it. Figure shows two points, A and B on an electric field line of a positively-charged sphere. When a positive test charge is placed at point A, the positive charge will move away from point A (higher potential) to point B (lower potential).

How do you calculate electric potential energy?

The electric potential (voltage) energy at any point in space at a distance of r from a single charge can be calculated using the formula V = kQ/r. Use this electric potential energy calculator to calculate electric potential energy (Voltage) at a point of distance.