equipotential

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

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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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Figure 19.12 An isolated point charge Q with its electric field lines in blue and equipotential lines in green.

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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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Arguing from experience, we come to the conclusion that each planet must also possess its electric field, which also must have its lines of force, its different potentials at different distances, and its equipotential surfaces.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George