Write the characteristics of equipotential surface.
Write the characteristics of equipotential surface.
$(1)$ Equipotential surface offer an alternative usual picture in addition to the picture of electric field lines around a charge configuration.
These surfaces are near in strong electric field and they are far in weak electric field.
$(2)$ No work is done in moving a test charge over an equipotential surface.
$(3)$ Electric field is always normal to the equipotential surface at every point.
$(4)$ Two equipotential surfaces can never intersect.
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