equipotential

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

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Work is needed to move a charge from one equipotential line to another.

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The term equipotential is also used as a noun, referring to an equipotential line or surface.

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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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It could equally be shown that there were equipotential surfaces so far as the phenomena of heat and light are concerned, as these also are subject to the same laws.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George