Equipotential Surface Class 12 Physics Electrostatic Potential Surfaces And Capacitance

#4. Equipotential Surface

• Equipotential is the surface which has equal potential at every point on it.
• Equipotential surface due to a single point charge are concentric spheres having the charge at the center. All the points on a sphere around a point charge have the same distance (radius) so all have same potential.

• Equipotential surface for a line charge is cylinder 

Properties of Equipotential Surface

• Work done for moving a charge on an equipotential surface is zero

• The potential difference between any two points on equipotential surface is zero 
• Electric Field is always perpendicular to an equipotential surface

• Equipotential surface for a single point charge are concentric spheres having the charge at the center
• Two equipotential surfaces can never intersect. 

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