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I understand the notion that an electric field admits an electric potential field, giving the energy per unit charge at each point in space. But I don't understand what is meant when someone says the field itself has energy.
Can anyone explain the motivation behind assigning an energy to an electric field? How can this energy be transformed to other forms of energy? What experiments make use of this idea?
Can anyone explain the motivation behind assigning an energy to an electric field? How can this energy be transformed to other forms of energy? What experiments make use of this idea?