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what does potential exactly mean

what does potential exactly mean

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Nishant Vora IIT Patna
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8 years ago
Dear student,,

here is the basic defination
An electric potential (also called the electric field potential or the electrostatic potential) is the amount of electric potential energy that a unitary point electric charge would have if located at any point in space, and is equal to the work done by an electric field in carrying a unit positive charge from infinity

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