equipotential
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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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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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In other words, motion along an equipotential is perpendicular to E .
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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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Such a surface, therefore, is always an equipotential.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
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