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uchicago2012
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Hello,
I'm working on a problem where I'm given V, the electric potential, and asked to find E, the electric field. So I took the partial derivatives and found Ex, Ey, Ez. But now I was wondering how to present this answer, since it is the components of the electric field and not the electric field. Would I simply add them together? And how would I know the direction of E, since E is a vector while V is not?
I'm working on a problem where I'm given V, the electric potential, and asked to find E, the electric field. So I took the partial derivatives and found Ex, Ey, Ez. But now I was wondering how to present this answer, since it is the components of the electric field and not the electric field. Would I simply add them together? And how would I know the direction of E, since E is a vector while V is not?