Tom Donaly wrote:
If I cause 10 coulombs of charge to be on a 10 meter long wire, do I
not have a uniform charge distribution of 1 coulomb per meter on the
wire, under dc steady state conditions? Isn't this required for any
equipotential surface?

Nope.

But that wasn't the correct question. Given two identical dipole
elements connected by a link coupling, does the charge on each
element equalize with the other?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp