Science Common Sense

1687 - What is the electric potential at a point in an electric field?

Imagine you have a ball at the top of a hill. The ball has the potential to roll down the hill because of its height.

Electric potential is kind of like that, but for electricity. It's the energy that a charged particle (like an electron) has at a certain point in an electric field. The electric field is like the hill, and the electric potential is like the energy the ball has because of its height.

The higher the electric potential, the more energy the charged particle has at that point.