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    1. Gauss's law relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the electric charge enclosed by the surface. It can be used to calculate electric fields near symmetrical objects by taking the field constant over the Gaussian surface. 2. Gauss's law helps explain that the electric field inside a conductor is always zero. Any excess charge placed on a conductor will distribute itself on the surface. 3. To use Gauss's law, determine the electric field pattern, choose a Gaussian surface to simplify the problem, such as a sphere or cube, and relate the flux through the surface to the enclosed charge.

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    1. Gauss's law relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the electric charge enclosed by the surface. It can be used to calculate electric fields near symmetrical objects by taking the field constant over the Gaussian surface. 2. Gauss's law helps explain that the electric field inside a conductor is always zero. Any excess charge placed on a conductor will distribute itself on the surface. 3. To use Gauss's law, determine the electric field pattern, choose a Gaussian surface to simplify the problem, such as a sphere or cube, and relate the flux through the surface to the enclosed charge.

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    1. Gauss's law relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the electric charge enclosed by the surface. It can be used to calculate electric fields near symmetrical objects by taking the field constant over the Gaussian surface. 2. Gauss's law helps explain that the electric field inside a conductor is always zero. Any excess charge placed on a conductor will distribute itself on the surface. 3. To use Gauss's law, determine the electric field pattern, choose a Gaussian surface to simplify the problem, such as a sphere or cube, and relate the flux through the surface to the enclosed charge.

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    1. Gauss's law relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the electric charge enclosed by the surface. It can be used to calculate electric fields near symmetrical objects by taking the field constant over the Gaussian surface. 2. Gauss's law helps explain that the electric field inside a conductor is always zero. Any excess charge placed on a conductor will distribute itself on the surface. 3. To use Gauss's law, determine the electric field pattern, choose a Gaussian surface to simplify the problem, such as a sphere or cube, and relate the flux through the surface to the enclosed charge.

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    Physics 2 - Worksheet 2 : GAUSS LAW

    A. GAUSS LAW
    Gauss Law is equivalent to the Coulomb law but sometimes more useful. Gauss law considers a flux of an
    electric field thru some hypothetical surface (called a Gaussian surface) The flux of the field E thru the surface
    S is formally an integral

    The Gauss law relates the flux of the electric field thru the Gaussian surface with the total charge enclosed by
    this surface

    The usefulness of the Gauss law is seen when calculating electric fields near symmetrical objects. For these
    situations, the electric field can for example be a constant on the surface of the integration and can be taken
    out of the integral defined above. The integral can then often be done easily (it is just the area of the
    Gaussian surface) and one can immediately find and expression for the electric field on the surface.

    Gauss’s Law helps us understand the behavior of electric fields inside the conductors. Since the conductors
    are the objects where the electrons move freely the electric field must be zero everywhere inside the
    conductor. The reason: if a conducting object is placed in a non-zero external electric field the charge inside
    the conductor will move towards its surface until the electric field created by this displaced charge completely
    compensates the external electric field. The total electric field inside the conductor is therefore zero. If that
    were not so, free charges would move due to the field and make it so.

    The Gauss law also helps us understand the distribution of electric charge placed into a conductor. Since
    the electric field inside every conductor is always zero, there cannot be extra electric charge located inside of
    one. Therefore, any extra charge placed into the conductor will move until it is distributed only on the surface
    of the conductor. This can be proven by considering any Gaussian surface lying completely inside the
    conductor, since electric field inside the conductor is zero, there is no charge which is enclosed inside this
    Gaussian surface.
    When to use Gauss's Law
    When you are given some CHARGE DISTRIBUTION and you want to find the ELECTRIC FIELD.
    How to use it: a step-by-step procedure:
    1. Determine the ELECTRIC FIELD PATTERN - draw diagram(s) showing the field lines
    2. Choose the best GAUSSIAN SURFACE, to make things simple:
    - Inevitably: cylinder, sphere or cube

    Examples of application of Gauss's Law


    1. Electric field due to a point charge
    2. Electric field due to an infinite line of charge
    3. Electric field due to an infinite sheet of charge
    4. Electric field due to a sphere of uniform charge density

    Example Problem1.
    Find the flux through a spherical Gaussian surface of radius a = 1 m surrounding a charge of 8.85 pC.

    Example Problem2.
    A positive charge Q= 8 mC is placed inside the cavity of a neutral spherical conducting shell with an inner
    radius a and an outer radius b. Find the charges induced at the inner and outer surfaces of the shell.

    QUESTIONS-A
    1. A positive charge Q=8 mC is placed inside a spherical conducting shell with inner radius a and outer
    radius b which has an extra charge of 4 mC placed somewhere on it. When all motion of charges
    ends (after 10-15 sec), find the charges on the inner and outer surfaces of the shell.

    2. Find the value of the electric field at a distance r= 10 cm from the center of a non conducting sphere of
    radius R= 1 cm which has an extra positive charge equal to 7 C uniformly distributed within the volume
    of the sphere.

    3. A positive charge is placed inside a spherical metallic shell with inner radius a and outer radius b. The
    charge is placed at shifted position relative to the center of the shell. Describe the charge distribution
    induced at the shell surfaces.

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