equipotential
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The equipotential lines can be drawn by making them perpendicular to the electric field lines, if those are known.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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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Given the electric field lines, the equipotential lines can be drawn simply by making them perpendicular to the electric field lines.
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This implies that a conductor is an equipotential surface in static situations.
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In this way the equipotential lines can easily be picked out.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
