Electric Potential Due to a Point Charge and Equipotential Lines

Electric Potential Due to Point Charges

• Two or more charges

  1. Find the potentials due to each charge at that location ​

  2. Add the potentials together to get the total potential ​

​Field lines and Eqiupotential Lines

Field lines and equipotential lines are like a topographic map where altitudes are equipotential lines and slopes are like field lines

Sketch the equipotential lines in the vicinity of two opposite charges, where the negative charge is three times as great in magnitude as the positive.

Answer's on the next slide​

Let me charge you with this point: You can reach your potential!!! (: