What is electrical potential energy? How does it relate to voltage?

Question

What is electrical potential energy? How does it relate to voltage?

Answer 1

Well it may also have something to do with how in Chemistry, a poly atomic Ion tends to either gain or lose an electron to be stable, metals , for example tend to lose electrons , and become positively charged cations, while nonmetals tend to do the opposite. This is why metals are such good conductors of electricity. A voltage is a measure of energy per unit charge.

The voltage between two points is a short name for the electrical force that would drive an electric current between those points. Specifically, voltage is equal to energy per unit charge. In the case of static electric fields, the voltage between two points is equal to the electrical potential difference between those points. In the more general case with electric and magnetic fields that vary with time, the terms are no longer synonymous. Electric potential is the energy required to move a unit electric charge to a particular place in a static electric field. Voltage can be measured by a voltmeter. The unit of measurement is the volt.

Answer 2

In Maxwell Equations, Electric potential is the scalar product between the speed vector and the magnetic potential vector. The experimental demonstration is the electric potential on a metallic speedy rod upon a magnetic field (this can be also demonstrate by vectorial analysis).

In Maxwell Equation, Electrique potential Energy, is the product of the charge by Electric potential, but also Electric potential density energy can be define with E field witch is the gradiant of Electric potential

Laurent DAMOIS

Answer 3

Voltage or electrical potential is the potential energy per unit of electric charge. A volt is one joule of electrical potential energy per coulomb of charge. Voltage or electrical potential energy is meaningless except in relation to an arbitrary ground potential.

Answer 4

voltage IS potential energy