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19.4 Exercise 3

Avg difficulty 2.5

As isolines of electric potential get closer together, the electric field gets stronger. What shape would a hill have as the isolines of gravitational potential get closer together?

  1. constant slope
  2. steeper slope
  3. shallower slope
  4. a U-shape

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