what are equipped potential surfaces and what are their properties?
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Some important properties of equipotential surfaces : Work done in moving a charge over an equipotential surface is zero. The electric field is always perpendicular to an equipotential surface. The spacing between equipotential surfaces enables us to identify regions of strong and weak fields
The Surface in electric field at which potential at every point are equal is called equipotential surfaces .
For a point charge Corecentric Sphere are equal potential surfaces.
For Uniform electric field all the Parallel planes, perpendicular to electric field are equipotential surfaces.
1) The Potential difference between any two point on an equipotential surface is zero.
2) The Electric lines of force at each point of an equipotential surface are normal to the surface.
3) Work done on moving a charge on equipotential Surface is always zero.
4) The Potential surface may be planar, solid etc but it can never be point size.
5) Equipotential Surface planer in an uniform electric field.
6) Equipotential Surface due to an isolated point charge is a spherical
7) Equipotential surface due to line charge is Cylindrical.
8) Electric field is always perpendicular to equipotential surface.