equipotential

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Sketch the equipotential lines in the vicinity of two opposite charges, where the negative charge is three times as great in magnitude as the positive.

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Sketch the equipotential lines a long distance from the charges shown in Figure 19.34.

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This implies that a conductor is an equipotential surface in static situations.

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Force is in the same direction as E , so that motion along an equipotential must be perpendicular to E .

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In the language of physics, the stratus forms an equipotential surface in the gravitational field permeating the earth's atmosphere.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst