![]() ![]() Sisyphus by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain Electric Potential It creates an electric potential to move these charged particles towards each other or away from each other, depending on whether the charge between these two interacting particles or objects is similar or opposite. Similarly, an electric field created by a charged particle or a group of particles acts upon other charged particles. However, as soon as you push off… off you go down the hill! It is only your weight that pushes the skis. In the analogy with gravity, when you are standing at the top of the mountain, the force of gravity is compensated by the reaction force of the ground and nothing pulls you down and off this mountain. If there are forces that act to prevent this, the electric potential does not change. Again, this is only the case if no other forces are preventing this from occurring. If the electric charge of the objects is the same, each of the electrically charged objects attempts to decrease its electric potential by moving as far as possible away from the similarly charged source of a powerful electrical field. To do so it attempts to get as close as possible to the high-capacity source of an electrical field with the opposite charge, as long as other forces are not preventing it from doing so. We can conclude from the above that an electrically charged body tries to reduce its electric potential. Similarly, an electric potential field that acts upon charged particles aims to bring the particles with the opposite charge together and to push particles with a similar charge apart. ![]() As part of this interaction, the Earth pulls us downward, and we let it, enjoying our ride down a mountain slope on skis or a snowboard. When the Earth interacts with us, it attempts to decrease our gravitational potential, because we have a certain mass. The forces of gravity, which we have to overcome, act in the potential gravitational field of the Earth. We know from our school physics lessons and our everyday experiences that when we climb up a hill, we overcome the force of gravity and perform work to do so. We can define the notion of electric potential as one that describes interactions of electrically charged particles or groups of charged particles, which have either the same or opposite charges. The concept of electrical potential plays an important role in describing phenomena related to electricity. Once we do master it, it would allow us to understand anti-gravity. We have not fully understood the negative mass. Gravitational forces, on the other hand, can only cause the attraction between two objects. We can have negative electric potential due to having both negative and positive charges that either attract or repel each other. The difference is in the negative values. Since it is a mathematical abstraction, the easiest way to understand electric potential is to think of it as an analogy to gravity. As for the electric potential, it is a somewhat more complicated matter. It is nearly impossible to live in the era of electricity and not to have been intimately acquainted with it. Well, since you are reading this article, nothing bad happened to you even if you explored electricity in childhood. Many of us explored our environment and had a shock quite literally, when we touched electrical outlets in secret, while our parents were not watching us. We live in the era of electricity and know about electrical voltage since childhood. When we climb up a hill we perform work to resist the force of gravity ![]()
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