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Electric Flux and Gauss's Theorem
Physics · Chapter 2 · Units 1-2: Electrostatics and Current Electricity
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- Flux of a vector field; area vector; electric flux for uniform and non-uniform fields; cases theta = 0, 90 and 180 degrees
- Gauss's theorem: statement; net enclosed charge; properties of a Gaussian surface
- Field due to an infinitely long straight line of charge
- Field due to a uniformly charged infinite plane thin sheet
- Field due to a uniformly charged thin spherical shell (inside, on and outside); graph of E against r