Voltage and Field

D V = - E Ds , or Ex = -DV / Dx .

Note that the units of electric field are (from its definition: E = F/q) Nt/Coul.

But from the above relation, they are equivalently Volts/m.

Hence: Nt/Coul = Volt/m.

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