Definition:Equipotential Surface
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Definition
An equipotential surface is an equal surface $S$ embedded in a region of space $R$ with respect to an electric potential field (or in fact any conservative field) within $B$.
That is, it is a surface $S$ embedded in $R$ at which the electric potential is equal throughout $S$.
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Sources
- 1951: B. Hague: An Introduction to Vector Analysis (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text I$: Definitions. Elements of Vector Algebra: $5$. Scalar and Vector Fields
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): equipotential surface
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): equipotential surface