This man developed a regime which approximates that light propagation doesn't significantly diverge from a beam's axis, which allows for propagation equations to assume the small angle approximation. In addition to developing that paraxial approximation, this man gained fame for using observations by Joseph Piazzi to compute the orbit of the asteroid (*) Ceres. One of his namesake laws, which suggests that the magnetic field lines going in and out of an infinitesimal volume must cancel out, implies that magnetic monopoles cannot exist. For 10 points, identify this scientist whose namesake unit measures magnetic flux density, and whose name law states that the electric flux through a closed surface is directly propor
This man developed a regime which approximates that light propagation doesn't significantly diverge from a beam's axis, which allows for propagation equations to assume the small angle approximation. In addition to developing that paraxial approximation, this man gained fame for using observations by Joseph Piazzi to compute the orbit of the asteroid (*) Ceres. One of his namesake laws, which suggests that the magnetic field lines going in and out of an infinitesimal volume must cancel out, implies that magnetic monopoles cannot exist. For 10 points, identify this scientist whose namesake unit measures magnetic flux density, and whose name law states that the electric flux through a closed surface is directly proportional to the charge enclosed by that surface.
This man developed a regime which approximates that light propagation doesn't significantly diverge from a beam's axis, which allows for propagation equations to assume the small angle approximation.