Visualization of electric potential as altitude

A Totally Different Way To Approach Electric Fields and Electric Potential

Many Physics students get overwhelmed when they start their first Electricity & Magnetism (E&M) class, even if they were pretty good at Mechanics.  And it is hard to blame them.  Most of them have at least an intuitive feel for concepts like mass, velocity, momentum, and gravity, and they feel that these ideas in Mechanics…
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