Gauss's Law

The total of the electric flux out of a closed surface

is equal to the charge enclosed divided by
thepermittivity.
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The electric flux through an area is defined as the electric field multiplied by
the area of the surface projected in a plane perpendicular to the field. Gauss's
Law is a general law applying to any closed surface. It is an important tool
since it permits the assessment of the amount of enclosed charge by mapping
the field on a surface outside the charge distribution. For geometries of
sufficient symmetry, it simplifies the calculation of the electric field.

Electric
field
concepts

Another way of visualizing this is to consider a probe of area A which can

measure the electric field perpendicular to that area. If it picks any closed
surface and steps over that surface, measuring the perpendicular field times its
area, it will obtain a measure of the net electric charge within the surface, no
matter how that internal charge is configured.
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