Summarize the relationship you find between electric field lines, and equipotent

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Summarize the relationship you find between electric field lines, and equipotential lines around a single point charge. Explain the difference between "electric potential energy" and the "electric potential". Catenate the electric potential energy of an electron at the point x=1 m and y=1 m in part One. What is the unit of electric potential energy? ___ What is the unit of electric potential __ What is meant by voltage? Explain with a numerical example. Suppose you are a test charge and you start moving at some distance from the source charge. What path could you move along without doing any work? Explain your reasoning.

Explanation / Answer

1) electric field lines are always perpendicular to equipotential lines for a single charge.

electric field lines point radially outwards

electric field lines are concentric spheres

2)

electric potential is the work done in moving a unit positive charge from infinite to a point in space.

while electric potential of a charge is the work done in moving a that charge from infinite to a point in space.

4) unit of electric potential energy is Joule

5)unit of potential is Volts

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