Mon. Week 8, April 14: Electric Potential

Today's topic of discussion was primarily focused on the subject of electric potential. Different from electric potential energy, electric potential is another word for describing voltage and is defined as potential energy per unit charge.

At the start of the class, we were given an exercise where we calculated the potential between each of twenty evenly distributed segments of an symmetrical geometric object at some point from the object.

The next major experiment dealt with taking live measurements of potential at different points between two points across a conductive sheet of paper. Fifteen volts was applied to the two strips of metallic paint shown on the paper. We measured voltage at points between the paint with respect to the round blotch of paint (not the long strip).

The data gathered from the potential measurements suggests that the potential increases non-linearly