equipotential
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No work is required to move a charge along an equipotential, since ΔV = 0 .
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Figure 19.12 An isolated point charge Q with its electric field lines in blue and equipotential lines in green.
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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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Sketch the equipotential lines in the vicinity of two opposite charges, where the negative charge is three times as great in magnitude as the positive.
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Let us assume the field divided up into tubes of electric force as already explained, and these cut normally by equipotential surfaces.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
