equipotential

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

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

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In other words, motion along an equipotential is perpendicular to E .

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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