equipotential
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No work is required to move a charge along an equipotential, since ΔV = 0 .
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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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Force is in the same direction as E , so that motion along an equipotential must be perpendicular to E .
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In the language of physics, the stratus forms an equipotential surface in the gravitational field permeating the earth's atmosphere.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst