01935 IUPAC Gold Book - electric potential 10.1351/goldbook.E01935 E01935 current quantity 1 At a point, the work required to bring a charge from infinity to that point in the electric field divided by the charge. Green Book, 2nd ed., p. 14 (https://goldbook.iupac.org/files/pdf/green_book_2ed.pdf) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/E01935/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/E01935/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/E01935/plain Citation: 'electric potential' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.E01935 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-01T14:33:29+00:00