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Homework Statement
You have two metal electrodes, not touching each other. One is a circle and one is like a thin plank. The plank is at a lower electric potential.
Draw electric field lines between them, including direction.
Draw equipotential lines in the space between the electrodes as well.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I'm not sure how to do this because I've never drawn electric field lines for things that are not just charged objects. What does the circle being at a lower potential tell you?
Does it mean that one object will act like a negative charge and the other like a positive charge?
Let's start with that because once I can draw the electric field lines, I think I can draw the equipotential lines (just 90 degrees everywhere to the field lines).