Gauss’ law 03/03/16

 

A very interesting way to find the number of charges in an electromagnetic system is to use a technique known as Gauss’ law. Gauss’ law states that if you were to create a geometric surface surrounding the charge distribution and if you were to summate the normal of the total number of electric field lives going through the surface, you would obtain the charge divided by the vacuum permittivity. To put this symbolically, Eda=q0, We can use this concept to find the electric fields in a much simpler fashion that using coulomb’s law.

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