Prerequisites

Wrap-Up: Concept Map: VEUF

Here are some ideas that may improve your understanding of the VEUF activity.

  • This is a good place to review your understanding of energy and force from previous coursework in physics.
  • Don't forget the minus sign in the relationships — both directions — between potential and field.
  • Note the parallels between the relationships potential/field and energy/force, and also between field/force and potential/energy.
  • Make sure you understand both the mathematical and the physical relationships between these concepts.