equipotential

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Isolines in a region where an electric field exists represent lines of equal electric potential, referred to as equipotential lines.

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

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An equipotential sphere is a circle in the two-dimensional view of Figure 19.12.

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When the lines of force and the equipotential surfaces are straight, parallel, and equidistant, we have a uniform field.

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