Chapter 50 of 2363 min read
Electric flux and Gauss's law with applications
Why this is asked: Gauss's law counts only the charge enclosed by the surface — charges outside contribute zero net flux, though they still affect the field at points on it — and the field just outside a charged conductor is σ/ε0, twice an isolated sheet's σ/2ε0.
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