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

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

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

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It could equally be shown that there were equipotential surfaces so far as the phenomena of heat and light are concerned, as these also are subject to the same laws.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George