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JIPMER 2008
Exam
JIPMER
Year
2008
Subject
Physics
Chapter
Electrostatics

JIPMER 2008 · Physics · Electrostatics

What is not true for equipotential surface for uniform electric...

What is not true for equipotential surface for uniform electric field?What is not true for equipotential surface for uniform electric field?

Options

  1. AEquipotential surface is flat
  2. BEquipotential surface is spherical
  3. CElectric lines are perpendicular to equipotential surface
  4. DWork done is zero

Correct answer

B. Equipotential surface is spherical

Step-by-step solution

An equipotential surface is a surface with a constant value of potential at all points on the surface. For a uniform electric field, say, along the xx-axis, the equipotential surfaces are planes normal to the xx-axis, iei e, plane parallel to the yy-z plane. Equipotential surfaces for a dipole and its electric field lines are shown in figure. What is not true for equipotential surface for uniform electric field? As said above that on equipotential surface, potential at all points is constant, this means that on equipotential surface work done in moving a test charge from one point to other point is zero.
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