 In words, Gauss's law states that

"The net electric flux through any hypothetical closed surface is equal to "formula_1"times the net electric charge within that closed surface".Gauss's law has a close mathematical similarity with a number of laws in other areas of physics, such as Gauss's law for magnetism and Gauss's law for gravity.In fact, any inverse-square law can be formulated in a way similar to Gauss's law