Timeline for Why is electric field zero where equipotential surfaces intersect?
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| Dec 21, 2017 at 22:09 | comment | added | Dave Rosenman | Very interesting... I'm going to have to pull out Griffith's book over the weekend and do a bit of reviewing... Haven't studied electrostatics since I graduated in May. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | The potential $V(x,y,z) = V_0 xy$ is a perfectly valid electrostatic potential, and it can very naturally be seen as having two equipotential surfaces (the $yz$ plane and the $xz$ plane) that intersect along a line. | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | ymuf | Unless the field is zero at the point of intersection? | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 17:57 | history | answered | Dave Rosenman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |