What is electrical potential and what units do we use to measure it?

What will be an ideal response?


Electrical potential is the force created whenever a positive and a negative charge are brought close to one another. It is the electrical pressure in a circuit. We use voltage as the unit of measurement and it is usually represented by the letter "E".

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