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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Force is in the same direction as E , so that motion along an equipotential must be perpendicular to E .

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

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So that Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have their electric fields, with their own lines of force, and with their equipotential surfaces.

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George