equipotential

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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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Force is in the same direction as E , so that motion along an equipotential must be perpendicular to E .

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This implies that a conductor is an equipotential surface in static situations.

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

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Let S represent the sun, and the circle round it represent the equipotential spheres which exist round the sun.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George