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UnitElectricPotentialDifference

A unit of measure for electric potential difference.

Declaration

class UnitElectricPotentialDifference

Overview

You typically use instances of UnitElectricPotentialDifference to represent specific quantities of electric potential difference using the NSMeasurement class.

Electric Potential Difference

Electric potential difference is the amount of electric potential energy of a point charge at a point in space. The SI unit for electric potential difference is the volt (V), which is derived as the difference in electric potential energy between two points of a linear conductor when an electric current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power between those points (1V = 1W/1A).

The UnitElectricPotentialDifference class defines its baseUnit() as volts, and provides the following units, which are initialized using UnitConverterLinear converters with the specified coefficients:

Name

Method

Symbol

Coefficient

Megavolts

Megavolts

MV

1000000.0

Kilovolts

Kilovolts

kV

1000.0

Volts

Volts

V

1.0

Millivolts

Millivolts

mV

0.001

Microvolts

Microvolts

µV

0.000001

Topics

Accessing the Base Unit

Accessing Predefined Units

See Also

Electricity