equipotential

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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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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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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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Take any equipotential surface enclosing the whole of the electricity, and suppose this to become an actual sheet of metal connected to the earth.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various