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Thursday 7 April 2016

Electrical potential

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL




Electrical Potential

     When a body is charged, work is done in charging it this work done is stored in the body in the form of potential energy. The charged body has the capacity to do work by moving other charges. The ability or capacity of a charged body to do work is called electric potential. unit of electric potential is volt.



Electric potential( v ) = work done /charge

                               = w/q

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