equipotential

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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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Force is in the same direction as E , so that motion along an equipotential must be perpendicular to E .

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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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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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And Driesch holds it to be impossible to distribute a complicated tectonic among the elements of an equipotential system.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf