From a physicist’s point of view, either ΔV or E can be used to describe any charge distribution. ΔV is most closely tied to energy, whereas E is most clo...From a physicist’s point of view, either ΔV or E can be used to describe any charge distribution. ΔV is most closely tied to energy, whereas E is most closely related to force. ΔVis a scalar quantity and has no direction, while E is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and direction. (Note that the magnitude of the electric field strength, a scalar quantity, is represented by E below.) The relationship between \(\Delta…
