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The Main Idea

Potential energy is only depended on the final state and initial state; it does not depend on the path that it has been taken. Likewise, the potential difference also does not depend on the path because the change of state remain the same wherever it takes the path. So, to make the calculation easy to find the potential difference, it is necessary to choose the path as easiest as possible. For this page, we will tackle on the subject of how the potential difference comes out depended on the path.

A Mathematical Model

The potential difference is always independent of the path taken between two locations. For a round-trip path, the potential difference is zero.

A Computational Model

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