equipotential

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

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These are called equipotential lines in two dimensions, or equipotential surfaces in three dimensions.

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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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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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When the lines of force and the equipotential surfaces are straight, parallel, and equidistant, we have a uniform field.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various