A version of this law modified to use free electric charge can be used to derive Poisson's equation, while the differential form of this law sets the divergence of the electric field equal to charge density divided by a constant. The right-hand side of one variant of this equation equals zero, implying the nonexistence of magnetic (*) monopoles. It is usually easier to use
A version of this law modified to use free electric charge can be used to derive Poisson's equation, while the differential form of this law sets the divergence of the electric field equal to charge density divided by a constant. The right-hand side of one variant of this equation equals zero, implying the nonexistence of magnetic (*) monopoles. It is usually easier to use than Coulomb's law to find the electric field due to a continuous charge distribution. For 10 points, name this law which states that the electric flux through a closed surface is proportional to the enclosed charge, which is grouped with Faraday's and Ampere's laws in Maxwell's equations.
A version of this law modified to use free electric charge can be used to derive Poisson's equation, while the differential form of this law sets the divergence of the electric field equal to charge density divided by a constant.
{Gauss}'s law