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I am totally lost about the idea of electric potential and work. sometimes the book defines work as negative and sometimes positive. please explain

this means that the conservatin of energy holds here. But what doesn't more negative electric potential signifies. thanks for your concise response

basically i don't understand the basic main idea of electric potential energy. since by definition, energy is ability to do work( to move an object across a distance). Negative source charge creates a uniform field around itself, and we place a positive test charge very near the source...