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If you do more work to move more charge a certain distance against an electric field, and increase the electrical potential energy as a result, why do you not also increase the electric potential?
To explain: Moving a charge particle in electric field would increase the electric potential.
Explanation of Solution
Potential energy is the work done on a charged particle. Whereas the electric potential is due to the electric field present in the region, the motion of charge particle can’t affect the electric potential of that region. So the work done on moving a charge particle against the electric field will increase the electric potential energy but electric potential is depend solely on the electric field present in that region.
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