equipotential

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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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Because a conductor is an equipotential, it can replace any equipotential surface.

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In other words, motion along an equipotential is perpendicular to E .

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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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So that Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have their electric fields, with their own lines of force, and with their equipotential surfaces.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George