Gauss's law
Foundational law of electromagnetism relating electric field and charge distributions / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about Gauss's law concerning the electric field. For analogous laws concerning different fields, see Gauss's law for magnetism and Gauss's law for gravity. For the Ostrogradsky–Gauss theorem, a mathematical theorem relevant to all of these laws, see Divergence theorem.
Not to be confused with Gause's law.
In physics (specifically electromagnetism), Gauss's law, also known as Gauss's flux theorem (or sometimes Gauss's theorem), is one of Maxwell's equations. It relates the distribution of electric charge to the resulting electric field.