Finally, a Useful Explanation of Electric Potential with Analogy to Gravity | Doc Physics

We move from Force to Energy to Potential (the tricky one) to Field Strength, in a Uniform Gravitational Field and a Uniform Electric Field. You already love gravity, so this will help, I hope.

[DocSchuster]

Thanks so much. This is one of the videos I'm most proud of, actually. I struggle with making potential relevant and meaningful EVERY YEAR. Obviously, it's hugely important as they continue to study physics, though - how you funna do a vector potential if a scalar potential makes no sense?!? Keep up the hard work!

[tmacin]

that was explained ridiculously well... calculus is dope

[danielkarlsson]

This is an excellent example of what a great teacher is. Thank you so much!

[brandonpaul]

Very useful. Thanks! After watching this video, the first I've experienced of your's, I am convinced that you are the dead pool of physics...

[SorryCrane]

I'm back again I've failed my physics exams :)

[mrtom-a-hawk]

This was absolutely incredible. Thank you! Need more videos and teachers like this

[xweifuhrwfwe]

Cleared up in a little under 15 minutes what my professor couldn't do in many lectures, thank you

[joeyGalileoHotto]

Your comparison with gravitational fields made understanding Electric Potential much easier for me to understand. Thanks!

[melaniegood]

I don't know you but this video is awesome! I'm an adjunct physics instructor who discovered your videos when I found your wonderful explanation of Snell's Law with the truck & marching band--my students loved that video! This one is very helpful in drawing connections to concepts that are already familiar, much like what I attempt to do in drawing connections with rotational kinematics, angular momentum, torque, etc to linear kinematics, linear momentum, force, etc.

[gmnavy]

That is a great video. Just a suggestion though. Instead of saying :Differentiating potential wrt d gives us E, might it not be better and less scary for some people if we say "the rate of change of potential with respect to distance". In the gravity case it would help immediately connecting with slope or gradient, and thereby make the idea of E more obvious ?

[vanessakeating]

11:46 "well i guess it's baby g,

[oldfashionedman]

Fantastic, thanks! I'll be watching this a few times!

[bendaoued]

thnx for this video .it is actually very clear and comprehensive .we look for more vids about the conversion for mechanical to the electrical cercuit analogy.thnx again doc

[alexandersoto]

Thank you, this is an absolutely great conceptual explanation of these topics.

[hominidaetheodosia]

Beautifully simple explanation thank you

[medic]

you know master ; because of this corona viruse i am at home and my teacher is myself but you konw it is realy hard to understand these complicated things but this video was realy usefull thank you...

[pbjgdhw]

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[nikhilmareddy]

great video super useful and your video have some of the best analogies and explanations I have ever seen. Keep up the great work :)

[wolframalpha]

Sir can I say that potential is nothing but the measure of strength of a field at a certain distance from the source of the field. Is it right??

[soontobedryves]

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