In this chapter, we take a detailed look at Gauss’ Law applied in the context of the electric field. We have already encountered Gauss’ Law briefly when we examined the gravitational field. Since the ...In this chapter, we take a detailed look at Gauss’ Law applied in the context of the electric field. We have already encountered Gauss’ Law briefly when we examined the gravitational field. Since the electric force is mathematically identical to the gravitational force, we can apply the same tools, including Gauss’ Law, to model the electric field as we do the gravitational field. Many of the results from this chapter are thus equally applicable to the gravitational force.
