equipotential

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The term equipotential is also used as a noun, referring to an equipotential line or surface.

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No work is required to move a charge along an equipotential, since ΔV = 0 .

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

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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