How Does Potential Electric Energy Change to Kinetic Electric Energy?
Charges All electric phenomena are made of collections of fundamental charges and are positive or negative. Objects with opposite charges attract each other; objects with the same kind of charge repel. At the atomic level, the smallest charged objects are electrons and protons. Electrons carry a negative charge; protons are positive. In materials, positive charges mean electrons are missing, and surplus electrons produce negatively-charged objects. Electric Field The force between charges, attractive or repulsive, is carried by the electric field between them. Charged objects that are motionless with respect to each other have potential energy. How much energy depends on the amount of charge and the distance between the objects. The force falls off as the square of the distance between objects, so things twice as far away feel one quarter the force. This force can be thought of as being like a compression spring and storing more potential energy as two objects become closer. Conductors
