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Gauss law

or Gauss' law, Gauss's law

noun

, Physics.
  1. the principle that the total electric flux of a closed surface in an electric field is equal to 4π times the electric charge inside the surface.

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Origin of Gauss law1

Named after K. F. Gauss

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