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| Jun 11, 2019 at 9:09 | comment | added | penguin99 | @Stephen, think of it like this. Suppose there are two buildings, one is 150m high and the other 50m high. Now the difference in the heights of the two buildings is 100m. Voltage is similar, it's the difference of two potentials; here the potentials being analogous to the heights 150m and 50m. These two heights are measured with respect to the ground we stand on, this can be considered as the ground of a circuit and the two potentials mentioned earlier are the two 'heights'. | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | Solve4How | Tom first, thank you very much! To keep it short my biggest problem with finding answers on this subject is no one can seem to give a clear one and I'm finding different definitions everywhere. Very clear and informative and you actually answered my questions. One last one if you don't mind...I understand the definition of voltage being difference in potential between two points. Do you mean difference in electrons between two points? | |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 19:09 | history | edited | Tom Carpenter | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1600 characters in body |
| Sep 20, 2017 at 18:20 | history | answered | Tom Carpenter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |