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equipotential

[ee-kwuh-puh-ten-shuhl, ek-wuh-] / ˌi kwə pəˈtɛn ʃəl, ˌɛk wə- /


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

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Since the electric field lines point radially away from the charge, they are perpendicular to the equipotential lines.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

These are called equipotential lines in two dimensions, or equipotential surfaces in three dimensions.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

The same field could be maintained by placing conducting plates at the equipotential lines at the potentials shown.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

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 William George Hooper




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