equipotential

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Since the electric field lines point radially away from the charge, they are perpendicular to the equipotential lines.

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

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

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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