Given the electrical potential energy, how do you calculate electric potential?

1 Answer
May 3, 2018

#E = qV#

Explanation:

Potential is like a voltage. The potential energy is just energy it takes to put a charge into a potential, i.e.
#E = qV#

The reason we use electrical potential at all is that we generally want to consider things that aren't just point charges and for that we need to calculate V.