# Frequent question: Can the electric potential be zero between two positively charged particles?

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Electricity is not freely available in nature, so it must be “produced” (that is, transforming other forms of energy to electricity). Production is carried out in power stations (also called “power plants”). … Other energy sources include solar photovoltaics and geothermal power.

## What is the electric potential between two positive charges?

If you bring two positive charges or two negative charges closer, you have to do positive work on the system, which raises their potential energy. Since potential energy is proportional to 1/r, the potential energy goes up when r goes down between two positive or two negative charges.

## Is it possible that electric potential is zero?

Yes, electric potential can be zero at a point even when the electric field is not zero at that point. … At the midpoint of the charges of the electric dipole, the electric field due to the charges is non zero, but the electric potential is zero.

## Is the electric potential equal to zero right in the middle between the two charges if so explain why if not is it zero anywhere?

At the midpoint between the charges, the electric potential due to the charges is zero, but the electric field due to the charges at that same point is non-zero. Both the electric field vectors will point in the direction of the negative charge. … The potential difference is zero, so no net work is done.

## Why can’t the electric potential in between two like charges equal zero?

Since the charges have equal magnitude and the distance from each to the mid point is the same, the magnitude of the potential energy contributed by each charge is the same, but the signs are opposite, so the net potential energy should be zero.

## Under which condition electric intensity at a point is zero but electric potential is not zero?

So there is the answer. The electric potential at the midpoint between the two +Q charges where the electric field is zero is nonzero and negative.

## What does it mean if electric potential is zero?

What zero potential means, roughly, is that the charges in your system have cancelled out. For example exactly half way (or otherwise equidistant from them) between two equal and oppositely charged point charges, potential is zero.

## Can potential cancel out?

What is the electric potential at point A? All of the points are equidistant from both charges. Since the charges are equal and opposite, their contributions to the potential cancel out everywhere along the mid-plane between the charges.
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