In the paper the concepts of electrical voltage used in the circuit theory and electromagnetic field theory are compared. The voltage is defined as the difference in electric potentials in the circuit theory, but in the field theory there is no unique concept and the different definitions for voltage are used. As shown by two examples, the concepts of voltage in the circuit theory and
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