Potential energy of electric dipole in uniform electric field¶
An electric dipole placed in an external uniform electric field possesses potential energy. The less the angle between the dipole and the electric field is, the less is its potential energy.
Conditions:
The electric field must be spatially uniform across the small region occupied by the dipole.
Links:
- potential_energy¶
:symbols;`potential_energy` of the electric dipole.
- Symbol:
U- Latex:
\(U\)
- Dimension:
energy
- electric_dipole_moment¶
Vector of the
electric_dipole_moment.
- Symbol:
p- Latex:
\({\vec p}\)
- Dimension:
charge*length
- electric_field¶
Vector of the electric field. See
electric_field_strength.
- Symbol:
E- Latex:
\({\vec E}\)
- Dimension:
voltage/length
- law¶
U = -dot(p, E)- Latex:
- \[U = - \left( {\vec p}, {\vec E} \right)\]