equipotential

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

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.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Sketch the equipotential lines a long distance from the charges shown in Figure 19.34.

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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 Hooper, William George