equipotential

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

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

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

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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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Isolines in a region where an electric field exists represent lines of equal electric potential, referred to as equipotential lines.

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As we proceed from the sun's surface east and west into space, we should pass equipotential surfaces of different potentials.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George