Timeline for Gauss law ambiguity
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 15:13 | comment | added | David White | Gauss's Law applies to every surface that encloses a charge. However, if you want to be able to evaluate the integral, you should choose the Gaussian surface such that the electric field strength is constant over the entire surface. Once this is done, the integral usually simplifies to a known formula. | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 10:15 | answer | added | FGSUZ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 7:47 | answer | added | Shreyansh Darshan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 5:41 | comment | added | Farcher | If Gauss's law is applied correctly any chosen surface will give the correct value for the electric flux through the chosen surface. Please give an example where Gauss's law "does not work". | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 4:12 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 4:08 | history | asked | Adithya Eshwarla | CC BY-SA 3.0 |