Answer to Question #153298 in Electricity and Magnetism for Afraid

Question

Explain electrostatic potential

Answer 1

Answer

Electric potential:

It is amount of work needed to move a unit charge from any reference point to a specific point against an electric field.actually

We take the reference point is Earth, although any point beyond the influence of the electric field charge can be used.

For point charge it is given by

$V=\frac{kq}{r}$