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Miss Perfect

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/Display ignorance

 

If we are accelerating a charge with mass, wouldn't the magnitude of that mass be important?

 

/ignorance.

 

The dynamics of how that charge would accelerate would be different — the proton will go in the opposite direction as an electron, and it will have a different speed. But a fundamental charge that is accelerated through a 1V potential difference gains 1 eV of energy, by definition.

 

So the idea in the OP is right — the pV and eV would be the same, so there's no need for both.

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