equipotential

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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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Figure 19.12 An isolated point charge Q with its electric field lines in blue and equipotential lines in green.

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The potential is the same along each equipotential line, meaning that no work is required to move a charge anywhere along one of those lines.

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Hence the distances separating the equipotential surfaces are a measure of the electromotive force present.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various