Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 335
these surfaces. It will be noticed that the intersections of the lines andthe equipotential surfaces are orthogonal. If the lines offorce be regarded as so many stretched elastic bands con-necting the bodies, the mechanical force exerted would besuch as to draw the bodies nearer together; that is,… … Fig. 197. independent systems starting from each point and runningto oppositely charged surfaces supposed to be at a greatdistance. FIELD ABOUT AN INSULATED CONDUCTOR. 325 The two systems are separated by a surface resemblingone of the sheets of a hyperboloid of two sheets. A systemof equipotential…
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