Equipotentials are line of constant potential.A positive test charge moving along an equipotential line will have exactly the same amount of potential energy so no work is done moving the test charge from one point on the line to another point on the equipotential.
Equipotentials
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Specification: OCR Physics A (H556), A-level, 6.2.1 Point and spherical charges and 6.2.4 Electric potential and energy. Topic: Electric Fields.
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