And Driesch holds it to be impossible to distribute a complicated tectonic among the elements of an equipotential system.
As we proceed from the sun's surface east and west into space, we should pass equipotential surfaces of different potentials.
It could equally be shown that there were equipotential surfaces so far as the phenomena of heat and light are concerned, as these also are subject to the same laws.
It can be easily seen that these electric rays cut the equipotential surfaces at right angles, as they pass from the centre of the sun outwards into space.
Arguing from experience, we come to the conclusion that each planet must also possess its electric field, which also must have its lines of force, its different potentials at different distances, and its equipotential surfaces.
Having now very briefly considered the meaning of the Electric Field, Electric Potential, Electric Density, and Equipotential Surfaces, we are now in a position to apply these facts to our solar system, at least as far as the sun is concerned.
Let S represent the sun, and the circle round it represent the equipotential spheres which exist round the sun.
The moving terminal then traces out an equipotential curve.
Hence the equation to the equipotentialcurve is r1r2 = a constant.
These equipotential lines may be delineated experimentally by attaching the terminals of a battery or batteries to small wires which touch at various places a sheet of tinfoil.
We therefore have given the title of “complex-equipotential systems” to the systems in question, as all our denominations are based on the concept of the prospective morphogenetic potency, that is of the possible fate of the elements.
If we are going to explain what happens in our harmonious-equipotential systems by the aid of causality based upon the constellation of single physical or chemical factors and events, there *must* be some such thing as a machine.
Therefore there can be neither any sort of a machine nor any sort of causality based upon constellation underlying the differentiation of harmonious-equipotential systems.
The germs of certain medusae seem to be equipotential in every respect, even in their cleavage stages.
We therefore might call our systems equipotential systems with single potencies; or, more shortly, singular-equipotential systems.
These equipotential lines of diffusion give us the best and most concrete reproduction of the mode of propagation of periodic waves in space.
Each ring represents an equipotential line in the field of diffusion.
This is exactly analogous to the replacement by a distribution on an equipotential surface of the electrical charge or charges within the surface, by a distribution over the surface, with fulfilment of Coulomb's theorem (p.
And just as the lines of flow of heat meet the spherical isothermal surface at right angles, so the lines of force in the electrical case meet the equipotential surface also at right angles.
In the electrical analogue, the source and sink are respectively a point-charge and what is called the "electric image" of that charge with respect to the sphere, which is in this case an equipotential surface.
Hence the equipotential surfaces cannot cut each other.
The surface of a charged conductor is an equipotential surface, because when the electric charge is in equilibrium there is no tendency for electricity to move from one part to the other.
We may describe, through all the points in an electric field which have the same potential, surfaces called equipotential surfaces, and these will be everywhere perpendicular or orthogonal to the lines of electric force.
Take any equipotentialsurface enclosing the whole of the electricity, and suppose this to become an actual sheet of metal connected to the earth.
Another equipotential surface is evidently a very small sphere described round A.
Suppose that we have any distribution of electricity at rest over conductors, and that we know the potential at all points and consequently the level or equipotential surfaces.
Let us assume the field divided up into tubes of electric force as already explained, and these cut normally by equipotential surfaces.
Then the charge at A together with the induced surface charge on the plate makes a certain field of electric force on the left of the plate PO, which is a zero equipotential surface.
The potential of such a shell at any internal point is constant, and the equipotential surfaces for external space are ellipsoids confocal with the ellipsoidal shell.
If there be any number of charged conductors in a field, the electrification on them being in equilibrium or at rest, the surface of each conductor is an equipotential surface.
If we are going to explain what happens in our harmonious-equipotential systems by the aid of causality based upon the constellation of single chemical factors and events, there must be some such thing as a machine.
The resultant magnetic force at every point of such a surface is in the direction of the normal (n) to the surface; every line of force therefore cuts the equipotential surfaces at right angles.
When V is constant, this equation represents an equipotential surface.
If an electric current is passed along a strip of thin metal, and the two points at opposite ends of an equipotential line are connected with a galvanometer, its needle will of course not be deflected.
Surfaces for which the potential is constant are called equipotential surfaces.
The potential due to a single pole of strength m at the distance r from the pole is V = m/r, (7) the equipotential surfaces being spheres of which the pole is the centre and the lines of force radii.
The equipotential surfaces are two series of ovoids surrounding the two poles respectively, and separated by a plane at zero potential passing perpendicularly through the middle of the axis.
Level surface (Physics), an equipotential surface at right angles at every point to the lines of force.
If there be no fall of potential there can be no resultant force; hence if we take any surface in the field such that the potential is the same at every point of the surface, we have what is called an equipotential surface.
Hence the distances separating the equipotential surfaces are a measure of the electromotive force present.
When the lines of force and the equipotential surfaces are straight, parallel, and equidistant, we have a uniform field.
The intensity of the field is shown by the number of lines passing through unit area, and the rate of variation of potential by the number of equipotential surfaces cutting unit length of each line of force.
It follows, therefore, that the number of equipotential surfaces per unit length can represent this limit, or rather the stress which leads to disruptive discharge.
The presence, however, of apparatus or observers upsets the conditions, while above uneven ground or near a tree or a building the equipotential surfaces cease to be horizontal.
This only means that the equipotential surfaces are crowded together, just as they are near the ridge of a house.
If the shape of the equipotentialsurfaces near it is influenced by trees, shrubs or grass, their influence will vary throughout the year.
In an ordinary climate a building seems to be practically at the earth's potential; near its walls the equipotential surfaces are highly inclined, and near the ridges they may lie very close together.
Bearing this in mind, one can readily imagine how close together the equipotential surfaces must lie near the summit of a high sharp mountain peak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equipotential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
