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Draw 3 equipotential surfaces corresponding to a field that uniformly increases in magnitude but remains constant along Z-direction. How are these surface different from that of a constant electric field along Z-direction ?

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As the electric field increases in the direction of Z-axis, the equipotential surface is normal to Z-axis i.e., in xy-plane and they become closer and closer as the field increases.
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