Potential Difference vs. Electromotive Force

Potential Difference vs. Electromotive Force - A Level Physics

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This video explains the differences between potential difference and electromotive force for A Level Physics.
This is where it gets tricky! You may previously have used the term 'voltage' but now you need to understand the difference between the e.m.f. of a supply and the p.d. across a component. This also shows you where to put a voltmeter in a circuit and the definitions of all key terms. Please note that this analogy is not perfect, it doesn't really explain how energy can be transferred almost instantaneously or how alternating current works but it's a start.
Electromotive Force: The energy gained per unit charge by charges passing through a supply (from chemical to electrical).
Potential Difference: The energy lost per unit charge by charges passing through a component (from electrical to other forms).
Thanks for watching,
Lewis
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@fj19981 8 жыл бұрын

This explanation is 100x better than my high school teacher

@Mirsab 5 жыл бұрын

How could I ever thank you enough, I finally understood Emf. and P.d. And I'm 19, been through school and so much, but I guess all it required was some unorthodox explanation using Legos 😂👌🏼

@rahulmawa5149 7 жыл бұрын

really loved the way you showed it with the help of lego,you made it easier and way more polite(in some ways)

@princessofproductivity 5 ай бұрын

What a legend. Everyone else’s explanation is over complicated. Yours is intuitive and complete. Perfect, thank you !

@rakshithkakunje621 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much this helped me understand this concept better than 4 other teachers who had taught me this.

@PhysicsOnline 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@muhammadabdullahwaseem3040 2 жыл бұрын

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@raghadayman4381 8 жыл бұрын

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@hehehee7317 4 жыл бұрын

Words simply cannot express my gratitude. Thanks for your wonderful analogy and succinct explanation.

@PhysicsOnline 4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome

@arshisid47 8 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful video. Easy to understand analogy. Clears my concept very much. Thank you!

@adnan5776 6 жыл бұрын

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@siddiki9778 5 жыл бұрын

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@dalia4289 6 жыл бұрын

i was really confused about it and was mixing them up thank you for your effort of explaining

@nikitachaudhari8443 6 жыл бұрын

This was great. Thank you so much!

@annonymousannonymous599 4 жыл бұрын

HOLY SHIT IN THAT SPAN OF 6 MIN I LEARNT MORE THAN WHAT I HAVE FROM HOURS OF READING MY TEXTBOOK THANK YOU SO MUCH

@bunty3798 4 жыл бұрын

Very understanding way to explain. Got the idea. The major difference is that the emf is always higher than the potential difference in the ckt what i came to understand from this video. Thanks a lot

@procrastinatingproductivel2031 3 жыл бұрын

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@rufikunbargi9407 4 жыл бұрын

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@afisatisha3135 2 жыл бұрын

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@DemetriLoizou 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant explanation! Thanks!

@arundir6485 6 жыл бұрын

Wow great vid and explanation. Thanks

@PritikaShrestha 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this innovative idea.

@PhysicsOnline 9 жыл бұрын

Between 5.00 and 5.03 I said it must go in parallel with the component in the circuit.

@azoulali4029 5 жыл бұрын

How?

@joshuaarnold8579 5 жыл бұрын

You should pin this comment. And your videos are great :)

@FaithSamuel_00 14 күн бұрын

Finally I get it, cheers boss!

@bmxphilosophy9805 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Thanks a lot, your explanations are very clear ^.^

@samuelj5890 8 жыл бұрын

amazing vids for revision! keep it up dude

@user-sq4uy1gi3n 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation!!

@deviprasadalapati2184 3 жыл бұрын

Well explained. Thank you.

@peterliu5712 5 жыл бұрын

Videos are excellent.Can you make a summary for all the a level physics definitions that need to be memorized, thank you very much.Wish your channel to be better and better.

@SteffiMendes 4 жыл бұрын

All I could think about the entire video is how similar you sound to Josh from the Sidemen. Great video!

@mine_crafter2403 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah

@ninives 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate now i get it, great explanation.

@spaxceghost 7 жыл бұрын

Bro thank u so much great explanation 😍

@bern1223 4 жыл бұрын

I love you so much for using Legos to help me understand this. Thank you Lewis!

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@AakashSawant001 8 жыл бұрын

good attempt to explain the concept

@busboijamz7191 7 жыл бұрын

I needed this.

@user-ew4wq9qi6x 3 жыл бұрын

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@goat6030 5 жыл бұрын

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@STP31 3 жыл бұрын

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@JimbobFaz Жыл бұрын

So will the e.m.f provided by the battery have an opposite sign to the p.d measured across the component? Furthermore, if the e.m.f from the battery had exactly the same magnitude as the p.d measured across the component, would the current be zero? That is, the system would be in equilibrium?

@avinash6427 Жыл бұрын

Very good way of visualizing it..thnx dude

@PhysicsOnline Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@mirsabn5982 7 жыл бұрын

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@abdulazizalharbi6228 4 жыл бұрын

What a great explanation, the problem is, people always treat EMF and Potential Difference as one thing (Voltage), which makes electricity hard to understand and you feel there is a contradiction. (Ex: they always say that when we have a close circuit we have hight current + voltage is the thing that makes electrons move which means if there is no voltage so there is no current, but in a close circuit as I mentioned the current is very hight but they say the voltage will be 0 !! how we will have current then? but what they mean is we still have EMF the electrons are loaded with energy, but the electrons with a close circuit do not drop this energy since there is no load (which means there is no potential difference, potential difference = 0) and they use Voltage here instead of potential difference.

@janamohammed6775 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@kundandahal766 7 жыл бұрын

can u say why the value of emf and pd are different in this interpretation.?

@_A_TruongNhaNguyen 2 жыл бұрын

thank u so much

@salbts2101 8 жыл бұрын

I wanna ask a question. When we measure potential difference, the positive end of battery is connected to positive end of voltmeter, in measuremnet of current, positive of battery is connected to positive of ammeter but in emf it is opposite? Can u plz explain this. shouldn't positive ends be connected to negative for flow of charge???

@joannadaniel9396 Жыл бұрын

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@kirtisha0310 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@timeisallitis 2 жыл бұрын

yes i got that...thanks bro

@rhythmandacoustics 4 жыл бұрын

Does the distinction actually matter? One is just voltage source and the other the voltage drop. By definition the potential difference between two points is the voltage. The source anode and cathod has voltage and when the circuit is completed the full voltage of the source goes to the load.

@arnie6605 6 жыл бұрын

Can we say that the electromotive force transfers other forms of energy to electrical or do we have to state that it's chemical

@asmae6869 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir for the video! I was thinking that the electromotive force was the force necessary to push the electrons in the circuit, but I wonder now how the electrons can keep moving after releasing all the energy to the bulb (in this example). I don't understand.

@suicidalducks1822 6 жыл бұрын

Electrons aren't moved by energy they move because they are attracted to the positive terminal of each component in the circuit. This is current - the flow of charge carriers from one terminal to another of opposite charge.

@dougdoug2165 2 жыл бұрын

PD is what we were taught as voltage drop back in the dark ages.

@MrNakedWizard 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@farhaadfarhaad497 4 жыл бұрын

Let me ask another question I've always had. If we connect only one (positive) head of a power supply to a conductor ,What will happen? I mean what exactly do electrons do ?. Do they still start moving toward the other end of the wire ? Do they accumulate somewhere id. on one end of the wire or what ? Do they receive the electrical field from the power supply and keep transferring it to each other ? thank you

@sppremsarimella4915 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@barashraim8113 9 жыл бұрын

Hello Sir, Thanks for this helpful video. But I did not understand what you said between 5:00 and 5:03 where you say " and in order for it to "something" part of the circuit " . What is the word you said mean and what is it?

@tobias-edwards 7 жыл бұрын

'basically have no' ^^

@abdullahraheel8269 6 жыл бұрын

it was an awesome video but can some one explain at what happens at the atomic level ? i mean does electrons get excited or something?

@luckycat3764 5 жыл бұрын

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@madhurar4599 3 жыл бұрын

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@grkreddy4460 Жыл бұрын

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@spacesuitred3839 7 жыл бұрын

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@PhysicsOnline 7 жыл бұрын

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@PhysicsOnline 8 жыл бұрын

+ModdersApprentice Thanks - hope they're useful.

@nedowen723 6 жыл бұрын

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@PhysicsOnline 7 жыл бұрын

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@luckycat3764 5 жыл бұрын

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@waynemaracle7139 8 жыл бұрын

very good

@farhaadfarhaad497 4 жыл бұрын

Hi dear Lewis . Thank you for your video . As far as I have learned , electrons ( charge carriers ) do not move so far through a wire. In fact electrons move a very short distance . They actually transfer their electrical field to one another and they move only few centimeters. No electron leaves the conductor . For example in a wire of 1 meter long it may never happen that an electron reaches from one head to the other , because they have a back and forth movement . Is this right ? thanks again for your video .

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@ahmadsajeel 2 жыл бұрын

love it

@NabMindful 4 жыл бұрын

I do Leaving Cert Physics in Ireland and this is similar to what we learn found it hard to grasp but it’s way easier now thanks!!

@jakkuwolfinsomnia8058 8 жыл бұрын

If electromotive force by definition is the rate of energy transferred from chemical to electrical energy per unit charge. Why is it not considered in terms of being a force?

@user-hu7su4kh4q 4 жыл бұрын

You are talking about "charged particles" movement and "current flow", but as i know the only particles that move are electrons making the current flow. So what are these "charged particles" ?

@PhysicsOnline 4 жыл бұрын

Electrons

@themediumcheese7484 6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be more correct to say that the electrical energy becomes vibrational kinetic energy in the atoms, which causes it to radiate thermal energy and light?

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@worldaffair1450 5 жыл бұрын

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@mohammadelkhatib5038 10 ай бұрын

How is that , you say emf and pd is energy , while we measure them in Volts

@umartaher5000 6 жыл бұрын

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@ournatureperspective5137 5 жыл бұрын

Sir, why we say that electron must be in parrell in voltmeter to measure it ,why not in series or what will happen if in series ?

@carultch 2 жыл бұрын

An ideal voltmeter acts as an infinite resistance (you'll see it called impedance on datasheets, since there is a lot more to it than simple resistance). That means, no current flows through it, and you measure the voltage drop across it, without drawing current away from the circuit. If you put a voltmeter in series with a circuit you are measuring, you will end up blocking the flow of current, so that you end up measuring what is known as the open circuit voltage. That may be what you are trying to measure in some cases, but when it isn't, you won't accurately measure the voltage across just one resistance. The opposite is the case for in-line ammeters. An ideal in-line ammeter acts as an infinitesimal resistance, which short circuits the path between the probes. You have to put the ammeter in series with the load you are measuring, so that there is negligible voltage drop across the ammeter. If you put an ammeter in parallel with a circuit, you will subject it to a much greater voltage drop than it can handle, which will subject the ammeter to way too much power dissipation in it, that could damage the device. Hopefully, it is built with fuses that blow before catastrophic failure happens. You can also have clamp-on ammeters, that instead measure the magnetic field surrounding a circuit, rather than sending circuit directly through the meter, which is the kind I prefer. This way, you don't need any electrical contact between the circuit you are measuring, and you don't have the unintentional mistake of too much voltage applied to the ammeter circuitry.

@shivanisinghal2491 4 жыл бұрын

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@HoomptyDo 8 жыл бұрын

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@PhysicsOnline 8 жыл бұрын

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@MAyub-fq8pj 4 жыл бұрын

I would really love if you could explain the development of higher and lower potentials inside the source of emf. Thank u and really helpful explanation.

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@methasawijayasuriya6472 3 жыл бұрын

does it mean that if we connected a voltmeter to a closed circuit with no electrical appliance connected, it will show zero?

@PhysicsOnline 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@methasawijayasuriya6472 3 жыл бұрын

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@DXPAlien 6 жыл бұрын

Current is the flow of charge per second, but what is charge? I mean i know it's Q= IT, but what is this charge? and If current is the flow of charge then what causes the current i mean what is that thing that carries the charge? are the charge carries some actual particle that carries the charge?

@PhysicsOnline 6 жыл бұрын

Onim Dip Charge is a property that some particles have, just like most particles have a property called mass.