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Electrostatic Energy of Point Charges by Mihir Kumar Mech is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document summarizes the electrostatic potential energy of point charges and continuous charge distributions. It defines the potential energy of assembling point charges as the work done against the electric field. This energy depends only on the positions of the charges and is called the configuration energy. For continuous distributions, the potential energy is expressed as an integral of the charge density multiplied by the potential over the volume.
- Author
- Mihir Kumar Mech
- Language
- EN