Electric Potential: Visualizing Voltage with 3D animations

Shows how voltage can be visualized as electric potential energy. Includes topics such as why the voltage is the same everywhere inside a metal conductor.

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[sammirison]

As a physicist, I must say, these animations are absolutely brilliant, and done mathematically so accurately. Well done! I have never seen such animations done so well before.

[vanderkischk]

using the 3rd dimension to explain potential energy like gravity and being able to flip it upside down to represent positive and negative charge particles. brilliant!

[aSeaofTroubles]

It's insane to think that they never teach this. We just start randomly talking about V = IR and other equations.

[BangMaster]

I never in my life thought that voltage can be imagined like gravity, this is just amazing. Thank You for these brilliant animations and explanations.

[soaringred]

I've been doing physics for 2 years and I can do so many equations involving voltage but I still don't know what voltage even is

[nyx]

6:00 I love how the switch slaps the electron aside.

[ChristianMuenker]

Absolutely brilliant - I could watch your videos all day: Concise, excellent explanations, just the right length, superb animations, clearly understandable speaker, soothing music - fantastic!

[meetan-]

I never understood voltage like I did from this video. Thanks.

[janrehmanlectures]

i m really really impressed with Eugene's work. it has made the classrooms very interesting.

[geoffrey.geoffrey]

As a physics teacher i am using your wonderful animations in my class. The music behind all makes them more attractive and unique as physics is the musics of the universe. Thank you for your good work. when i find proper time i will translate subtitles.

[md.saifulislambulbul]

I never do comments.But your videos compel me to write a comment.Your videos are the great animation ever i have seen.Thank you very much.

[fernwood]

I finally get it after 40+ years of trying to understand these fundamentals. You’re a miracle worker!

[cloudyclo]

Thank you! I like the speed personally. It gives me a lot of time to digest the information, connect ideas, as well as come up with questions.

[eugeneruby]

Very well presented! I appreciate how you took short pauses every few moments after explaining a point to allow the viewer to process what you just said before moving on to the next point. Bravo.

[enotdetcelfer]

I've always known the basics, have made circuit projects etc, but I'm a very visual learner. These visualizations are so perfect and the narration so clear it's like a light turning on in a room that i always organized in the dark. So awesome! These will be my mental picture going forward, great job!

[Rajusmind]

if I hv these videos when I'm started my schooling then today definitely i will be a scientist...
now I hv Dip &b.tech in EEE but due to lack of quality in teaching I'm a graduate but no matter inside...
i suffered a lot to to learn bcoz ELECTRICAL ENGINEER is my dream.. it had not happened at right time...
Plz help childs to develop subject
THANKYOU MAAM...

[zoltanvarga]

In several places "electric potential energy" should be replaced by "electric potential". This way it's incorrect. Voltage is the difference in electric potentials (they are both measured in volts) and not in potential energy, which is measured in joules. You can assign potential to a point in space, but not potential energy, which describes an interaction between more particles.

[blvshbeanie]

I've spent so long trying to understand electric potentials this video really helped me visualise it, thank you !!!

[DANversusWTP]

So glad you're uploading regulary now. Much appreciated.