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Increase or decrease in potential results in the change in direction of the flow of electric current.

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Is there any way to increase or decrease the energy possessed by electrons?

You can increase or decrease the kinetic energy of electrons by accelerating or decelerating them, which you can do with an electric field or by collisions. You can increase or decrease the electrical potential energy of electrons by causing them to move to positions with lower or higher voltage. To a very small extent you can increase or decrease the gravitational potential energy of electrons by causing them to move up or down in a gravitational field.


How does the electric potential energy change as the electron moves from one point to another in an electric field?

As an electron moves in an electric field, its electric potential energy changes. This change occurs because the electron experiences a force due to the electric field, causing its potential energy to increase or decrease depending on the direction of its movement.


What is the difference between increase and decrease?

the incerase is adding and the decrease is subtracting :)


What will happen when a dielectric slab is inserted in the parallel plate capacitor?

(a) Charge Will increase (b) Potential difference will stay the same (c) Capacitance will increase (d) Stored energy will decrease


If a proton moved from 0 V potential to 5 V potential would its potential energy increase or decrease?

Electric field points from high potential to low potential. Positive particles had tendency to follow electric field. If you are moving the particle against this tendency you are doing work, and this work give more potential energy to the particle.


Does potential energy decrease with height?

Yes, potential energy decreases with height. This is because potential energy is directly proportional to an object's distance from the reference point, with an increase in height corresponding to a decrease in potential energy.


When a spring compresses does its kinetic energy increase?

No. Its potential energy does decrease.


When something goes up a hill does the potential energy increase or decrease?

It increases


How do you think the potential energy will change if you change the length of the ramp?

Gravitational potential energy depends on the difference of height. If the length of the ramp is changed, but the endpoints have the same difference in height, there won't be any change in gravitational potential energy. If, on the other hand, the change is done in a way that the height does change, then gravitational potential energy will also change.


Does the gravitational attraction on an object increase or decrease with and increase in altitude?

it makes no difference you will still weigh the same


What is terminal PD?

A terminal potential difference is the potential difference appearing across the terminals of a voltage source, such as a battery or a generator, which varies according to the load supplied.When the battery or generator is off load (i.e. no load is connected to it), the terminal potential difference is equal to the electromotive force of that battery or generator.The terminal potential difference tends to decrease as the load current increases, due to a corresponding increase in the internal voltage drop of the battery or generator.


How can the electrical potential energy of a charged particle in an electric field be increased?

THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION IF WE PLACE THE CHARGE IN THE ELECTRIC FIELD AT A DISTANCE R FROM THE ELECTRIC FIELD AND PLACED THE ANOTHER POINT CHARGE AT A ANOTHER DISTANCE r WHERE R IS GRATER THAN THE SMALL R THEN THE ELECTRIC FIELD AT r IS MORE THAN THE ELECTRIC FIELD AT POINT R.ORWE CAN SAY THAT IF THE CHARGE IS PLACED IN THE DIRECTION OF ELECTRIC FIELD THAN ITS ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL ENERGY WILL DECREASE OR WHEN IN DIRECTION OPPOSITE THAN VICEVERSA