equipotential

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

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Let S represent the sun, and the circle round it represent the equipotential spheres which exist round the sun.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George