equipotential

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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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Since the electric field lines point radially away from the charge, they are perpendicular to the equipotential lines.

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Because a conductor is an equipotential, it can replace any equipotential surface.

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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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When the lines of force and the equipotential surfaces are straight, parallel, and equidistant, we have a uniform field.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various