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Originally Posted by Potironette View Post
Does that mean that voltage is both the change in potential energy per every positive coulomb of charge and the change in work per every coulomb of charge, because even though work is what has been done and potential energy is what could be done, the work that could be done is equal to work done if the work was done?
Yep, exactly, although that's a big statement to try to have in your head all at once. XD

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I guess in the context of electric fields work is applying a field force over a distance?
Yes, but don't generalize that too far -- you can't expand W = Fd into W = (ma)d naively; you have to make sure that expansion makes sense in the context.
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