Can someone explain electric potential energy in a way I can understand?

All the explanations I saw were complicated and hard to comprehend

3 Answers
Feb 28, 2018

Electric potential energy is the potential energy stored in charge particle when certain work is done on them.
It is similar to gravitational PE,here energy is stored in mass but electric PE is stored in charge particle.

Feb 28, 2018

See below.

Explanation:

Yeah, that happens a lot. The short definition is that electrical potential energy is built-up electricity.

Feb 28, 2018

electric potential is an object with twice the charge will experience twice the potential energy when placed at the same location.

Explanation:

I hope this helped you out