noun
- Plural of equipotential; surfaces or lines in a field (electric, gravitational, etc.) where all points have the same potential value.
Usage: technical; physics; commonly used in electromagnetism and field theory
Examples
- In an electric field, equipotentials are perpendicular to the field lines.
- The equipotentials around a point charge form concentric spheres.
- Engineers use equipotentials to visualize potential distribution in circuit design.
- Equipotentials help us understand how voltage varies in a conductor.
- The Earth's surface is approximately an equipotential in the gravitational field.