Answer to Question #299792 in Electricity and Magnetism for Joie

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3. If there were twice as much as charge on one of the charged objects near the charge sphere, would the electric potential energy of the object in the field of the charged sphere be the same or would it be twice s great? Would the electric potential of the object be the same or would it be twice as great?

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If there were twice as much as charge on one of the charged objects near the charge sphere, would the electric potential energy of the object in the field of the charged sphere be the same or would it be twice s great? Would the electric potential of the object be the same or would it be twice as great.

In this case, potential also becomes twice.