equipotential

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

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Isolines in a region where an electric field exists represent lines of equal electric potential, referred to as equipotential lines.

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

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Work is needed to move a charge from one equipotential line to another.

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It can be easily seen that these electric rays cut the equipotential surfaces at right angles, as they pass from the centre of the sun outwards into space.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George