GAUSS’S LAW

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 Electric Flux

Gauss’s Law

Applications of Gauss’s law in Charged Insulators

OUTLINES
Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium

Experimental Verification of Gauss’s Law and Coulomb’s Law

Formal Derivation of Gauss’s Law

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INTRODUCTION

Use Coulomb’s Law

to Calculate
Electric Fields

Gauss’s law, an
alternative procedure to
calculating Electric
Fields

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ELECTRIC FLUX

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EXAMPLE PROBLEM OF ELECTRIC FLUX

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GAUSS’S LAW

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GAUSS’S LAW

 The net flux through any closed surface surrounding a point charge q is
given by q/𝜀 0
 The net electric flux any closed surface that surrounds no charge is zero

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APPLICATION OF GAUSS’S LAW TO CHARGED INSULATOR

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ELECTRIC FLUX

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