equipotential

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Because a conductor is an equipotential, it can replace any equipotential surface.

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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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Sketch the equipotential lines a long distance from the charges shown in Figure 19.34.

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It is important to note that equipotential lines are always perpendicular to electric field lines.

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So that Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have their electric fields, with their own lines of force, and with their equipotential surfaces.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George