Can two equipotential surfaces intersect each other? Define equipotential surfaces. What is the potential difference between two points on an equipotential surface?
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Answer:No, because it would contradict how an equipotential surface is defined.Each particular equipotential surface is defined as the set of all points within a region of space which share a common potential value. If two of these surface intersected, it would mean that the points of intersection have two different potential values, which makes no sense in any situation where an equipotential surface is at all useful.If we have two different charge distributions, each with their own set of equipotential surfaces, and we bring them near eachother the surfaces don’t intersect the shift form to reflect the new charge configuration.
An equipotential surface is the surface which has same potential at its every point. (i) (ii) The electric field due to single charge is not constant, this is the reason why the equipotential surfaces about a single charge are not equidiatant.