equipotential

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

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In other words, motion along an equipotential is perpendicular to E .

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An equipotential sphere is a circle in the two-dimensional view of Figure 19.12.

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We have to remember that A A', B B', are sections of a sphere, so that when the body as E is a sphere, then the equipotential surfaces are spheres also.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George