equipotential

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

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

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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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When the lines of force and the equipotential surfaces are straight, parallel, and equidistant, we have a uniform field.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various