equipotential
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An equipotential sphere is a circle in the two-dimensional view of Figure 19.12.
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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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Work is needed to move a charge from one equipotential line to another.
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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
