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Potential Energy of Point Charges in a Square

July 23rd, 2022

Why airports are generally near sea?

August 9th, 2022

Work done by a conservative force

June 20th, 2022

Why the test charge is brought with infinitesimally slow speed?

January 22nd, 2022

What is the difference between electric potential and electric potential energy?

May 25th, 2020

Why does negative energy imply that a system is bounded?

March 4th, 2020

If a body is at rest at Earth's surface, can we say that its kinetic and potential energy are $0$ simultaneously?

August 3rd, 2020

Change in work done is or is not equal to the change in potential energy?

April 3rd, 2020

When you lift a box from the floor, the potential energy changes but kinetic energy does not change. Does it violate conservation of energy?

January 1st, 2020

What is the relationship between potential energy and inertia?

April 17th, 2020

Potential energy of the human body if all its atoms were split

December 21st, 2020

Measuring work done by gravity over non-constant gravitational acceleration

March 31st, 2020

Will a body necessarily posses zero kinetic energy at infinity?

October 30th, 2020

Work done separating parallel plates

July 5th, 2021

Why is gravitational potential negative?

October 9th, 2020

Why do we always ignore the integration constant when we derive formulas in physics (using integration)?

August 8th, 2021

Potential Energy in General Relativity

August 1st, 2022

Kinetic energy of the object, but Potential energy of the system: Why is it so?

August 3rd, 2022

Lower bound on energy is potential minimum

May 1st, 2021

Particle coming across a step potential barrier

February 25th, 2020

What is the relation between ‘Electric Potential’ and ‘Electric Potential Energy’?

February 15th, 2020

Multi-electron Atom

August 1st, 2022

Why is potential energy negative when orbiting in a gravitational field?

August 1st, 2022

Physics of every-day life: rotating bag of tea

March 15th, 2022

If magnetic force can't do any work, then how can we define a potential?

August 1st, 2022

Newtonian mechanics - where does the energy come from?

August 1st, 2022

Energy Gain with capacitor?

April 25th, 2020

Why is the work done on a charge calculated from infinity?

December 24th, 2020

Why does acceleration seem not to be the gradient of gravitational potential?

July 29th, 2020

Feynman Lectures: Why a non-reversible weight lifting machine cannot lift higher that a reversible one?

August 1st, 2022