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Electric potential difference related to electric potential energy difference (17-6)

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The key to understanding energy and power in electric circuits is that there is a poten­tial difference across each circuit element, which means that a change takes place in electric potential energy when a moving charge traverses a circuit element. Remember from Section 17­-3 the relationship between electric potential difference and electric potential energy difference: