Summary of Gauss’s Law

Following topics are covered:

A. Understanding Flux and Field through a surface

   1) Flux for a charged wire (positive charge)

   2) Flux for a charged wire (negative charge)

   3) Electric flux for a Flat Plate (positive charge)

   4) Electric flux and field for a Flat Plate (negative charge)

   5) Electric flux and field for a Hollow Spherical Shell (positively charged)

   6) Electric flux and field for a Solid Sphere (positively charged, conducting sphere)

   7) Electric flux and field around a Uniformly Charged Solid Sphere (positively charged)

   8) Unit of flux and electric field

 

B. Gauss's Law

C. Applications of Gauss's Law

    1) Finding the Electric Field around an infinitely long charged wire (positively charged)

    2) Finding the Electric Field around an Infinitely long charged Plate

    3) Finding the Electric Field around a charged Solid Sphere of conducting material

    4) Finding the Electric Field around a Hollow Spherical Shell (positively charged)

D. Spherical Charge Distributions

E. Earthing of Conductor

   1) Charge of the Earth

   2) Earthing a charged sphere

F. Solved problems

G. Test questions