🔖 Topics

  • Electric Flux
  • Closed Surfaces
  • Symmetry
  • Gauss' Law

🎯 Objectives

  • Calculate the electric flux passing through an open surface
  • Calculate the electric flux passing through a closed surface
  • Talk about some of the basic symmetries of a problem (spherical, cylindrical, etc.)
  • Calculate electric fields and charge distributions using Gauss' law

📋 Sequence

  • Definition of electric flux
  • Area vectors
  • Open vs. closed surfaces
  • Symmetry
    • Definitions
    • Spherical symmetry
    • Cylindrical symmetry
  • Gauss’ law
    • Point charge

🖥️ Animations, Simulations, Activities

We are going to be playing around with a simulation and answering a few questions. The link to the simulation is here.

📝 Practice Problems

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✅ Partial Solutions

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📘 Connected Resources

  • Giambattista, Alan, et al. College Physics With an Integrated Approach to Forces and Kinematics. 5th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
  • Nero, Dave. “Gauss’ Law With Arbitrary Surface.” GeoGebra, https://www.geogebra.org/m/r7Ue9Nac, January 2017.