Historically, we call this change in electric potential across the battery the emf which usually stands for ElectroMotive Force. But clearly, it isn't a force since it has units of volts.

The potential (with respect to infinity) of a point charge is then: If you have more than one point charge, the total potential at some location is just the sum of the electric potentials due to ...

Lift off The Endurance rocket ship launches from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. (Courtesy: Andøya Space/Leif Jonny Eilertsen) A drop in electric potential of just 0.55 V measured at altitudes of between ...

American Institute of Physics. "Electric Fields Have Potential As A Cancer Treatment." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 August 2007. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 08 / 070802100748.htm>.

On December 1, 2014, the team measured a thundercloud with an electric potential of 1.3 billion volts, or 1.3 gigavolts -- the most powerful electric storm ever measured.

CBSE class 12 physics revision notes are available in this article. Important topics covered are - electric potential due to a point charge, potential due to a group of charges, electric flux ...