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Two charged particles kept at equipotential plane have same potential,does this mean they have zero potential?

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EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES: Anysurface, with same electric potential at every point, is called an equipotential surface. Electric field is always perpendicular to an equipotential surface and hence works done in moving a charge between two points on an equipotential surface is zero

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