Work (electrical)
Electrical work is the work done on a charged particle by an electric field. The equation for 'electrical' work is, naturally, equivalent to that of 'mechanical' work:
where
- Q is the charge of the particle, q, the unit charge
- E is the electric field, which at a location is the force at that location divided by a unit ('test') charge
- FE is the Coulomb (electric) force
- r is the displacement
- is the dot product
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