Even though the field becomes infinite near the charge a gaussian surface can pass through the continuous charge distribution. How?
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Why is flux through a closed surface not infinite?
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Electric field line density : Theory vs Reality
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Electric field at a point on axis of uniformly charged ring using Gauss law
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Gauss law question with regard to this example
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How is the electostatic field propagated by the vacuum? How does a charge feel the presence of another charge when there is NOTHING between them?
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Coulomb's law and Gauss' Law
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Is the electric field of a volume charge distribution well defined?
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Maxwell in multiple dimensions: What happens to curl?
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Why we cannot use Gauss's Law to find the Electric Field of a finite-length charged wire?
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Charge Distribution On Hollow Sphere
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How can the electric potential be zero at a point where the electric field isn't, if that field can give a test charge kinetic energy?
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Vector field of charges
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How is Gauss' Law (integral form) arrived at from Coulomb's Law, and how is the differential form arrived at from that?
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Electric field for point charge in a smoothly-varying dielectric?
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Why is the field inside a conducting shell zero when only external charges are present?
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An uniformly charged infinite surface plane
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How can a region of uniform charge density have an an axial (parallel to only one axis) electrostatic field?