Gauss’s Law
Gauss’s Law: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Electric Flux, Gauss Theorem in Electrostatics, Proof of Gauss Law, Area Vector and, Electric Field due to a Long Charged Cylinder Using Gauss's Law
Important Questions on Gauss’s Law

The electric field components due to a charge inside the cube of side are as shown:
, where
.
Calculate the flux through the cube, and the charge inside the cube.

Which law is used to derive the expression for the electric field between two uniformly charged large parallel sheets with surface charge densities and respectively:

Applying Gauss theorem, the expression for the electric field intensity at a point due to an infinitely long, thin, uniformly charged straight wire is

The charge density of uniformly charged infinite plane is . A simple pendulum is suspended vertically downward near it. Charge is placed on metallic bob. If the angle made by the string is with vertical direction then _____

If charge is placed on one of the vertex of a cube. Then flux passing through any one surface of cube is _____

A hollow charged metal sphere has radius . If the potential difference between its surface and a point at a distance from the centre is, then electric field intensity at a distance is:

An electric field is present to a square plate of side length . What is the flux passing through the plate?

A charge is distributed uniformly in a sphere (solid). Then the electric field at any point , where ( is radius of sphere) varies as_____.

Two infinitely long parallel conducting plates having surface charge densities and respectively are separated by a small distance. The medium between the plates is vacuum, if is dielectric permittivity of vacuum, then the electric field in the region between the plates is-

A cylinder of radius and length is placed in a uniform electric field parallel to the cylinder axis. The total flux for the surface of the cylinder is given by

E signifies the _____ passing through a certain area dS. is the total amount of charge and signifies the permittivity of the vacuum.


A hollow cylinder has a charge coulomb within it. If is the electric flux in units of associated with the curved surface , the flux linked with the plane surface in units of will be


A parallel plate capacitor has two square plates with equal and opposite charges. The surface charge densities on the plates are and respectively. In the region between the plates the magnitude of the electric field is

The potential (in volts) of a charge distribution is given by
for
for .
does not depend on and . If this potential is generated by a constant charge per unit volume (in units of ) which is spread over a certain region, then choose the correct statement.


The ratio of electric field intensity at & in the shown arrangement is

A charge is placed at a distance above the centre of a square surface of side length . The electric flux through the square surface due to the charge would be?
