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equipotential

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


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

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

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.

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.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

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

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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 William George Hooper


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