More specifically, it is the kinetic energy gained by an electron as it is accelerated through a potential difference of one volt. A volt is equivalent to one joule (J), another measure of energy ...

An electron volt is an exceedingly small unit equal to 1.6 x 10-19 joule. (One joule is the amount of energy gained by a golf ball if it falls 2.2 meters.) The subscripts refer to the number of ...

Let’s backtrack for a bit. First, what does 1.3 billion volts mean? It’s certainly not the same as joules, which is a unit of energy. If you can remember back to your high school physics days ...

The LHC pushed the energy of its particle beams beyond one trillion electron volts, making it the world's highest-energy particle accelerator. The previous record was held by the Tevatron particle ...