Leumas Physics

Energy Density of an Electric Field

u = (1/2)·eps0·E^2

What it says

The energy stored per unit volume in an electric field is one half the vacuum permittivity times the square of the field strength. The constant eps0 is the vacuum permittivity (8.85e-12 F/m).

Symbols

SymbolQuantityDimension
uEnergy density (J/m^3)M L^-1 T^-2
EElectric field (V/m)M L T^-3 I^-1

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