equipotential
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Force is in the same direction as E , so that motion along an equipotential must be perpendicular to E .
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The equipotential lines can be drawn by making them perpendicular to the electric field lines, if those are known.
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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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Since the electric field lines point radially away from the charge, they are perpendicular to the equipotential lines.
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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
