Difference between potential and potential energy in physics?

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What exactly is the difference between potential and potential energy in conservative force field  like gravity or electric force field. I am getting confused between the two especially in definition, significance  and application?

Rd Basha · Accepted Answer

The electric potential is electric energy per charge. If a charge $q$ has potential energy $U$, then that means that the electric potential at that point is $V=U/q$.
For gravity, replace "charge" with "mass".

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