equipotential

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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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No work is required to move a charge along an equipotential, since ΔV = 0 .

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

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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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Arguing from experience, we come to the conclusion that each planet must also possess its electric field, which also must have its lines of force, its different potentials at different distances, and its equipotential surfaces.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George