Electric Potentials
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What is electrical potential?
The difference in the concentration of charged particles between two points, measured as voltage.
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What is electrical current?
The flow of charged particles from one point to another.
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What does it mean when something is polarized?
It has an electrical potential (a charge difference across a membrane).
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What is resting membrane potential (RMP)?
The charge difference across the plasma membrane of a cell at rest.
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What is the resting membrane potential (RMP) of neurons?
-70 mV.
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What does the -70 mV resting membrane potential mean?
The inside of the neuron is more negative than the outside.
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