equipotential
Americanadjective
adjective
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having the same electric potential or uniform electric potential
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Also: equipotent. equivalent in power or effect
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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.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The equipotential lines can be drawn by making them perpendicular to the electric field lines, if those are known.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Isolines in a region where an electric field exists represent lines of equal electric potential, referred to as equipotential lines.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Given the electric field lines, the equipotential lines can be drawn simply by making them perpendicular to the electric field lines.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Let S represent the sun, and the circle round it represent the equipotential spheres which exist round the sun.
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
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