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    In physics, Gauss's law for magnetism is one of the four Maxwell's equations that underlie classical electrodynamics. It states that the magnetic field...
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    In electromagnetism, Gauss's law, also known as Gauss's flux theorem or sometimes Gauss's theorem, is one of Maxwell's equations. It is an application...
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    equations can be written as (top to bottom: Gauss's law, Gauss's law for magnetism, Faraday's law, Ampère-Maxwell law) ∇ ⋅ E = ρ ε 0 ∇ ⋅ B = 0 ∇ × E = − ∂ B...
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    the Biot–Savart law will always satisfy Gauss's law for magnetism and Ampère's circuital law: Proof Starting with the Biot–Savart law: B ( r ) = μ 0 4...
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  • In physics, Gauss's law for gravity, also known as Gauss's flux theorem for gravity, is a law of physics that is equivalent to Newton's law of universal...
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    form of Gauss's law, as desired. Since Coulomb's law only applies to stationary charges, there is no reason to expect Gauss's law to hold for moving charges...
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    _{c}} is the local velocity of the boundary at each point. By Gauss's law for magnetism ( ∇ ⋅ B = 0 {\displaystyle \nabla \cdot \mathbf {B} =0} ), the...
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  • Faraday's law of induction is the dual of Ampère's circuital law. Gauss's law for electric field is the dual of Gauss's law for magnetism. The electric...
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    these are: Gauss's law ∇ ⋅ E = ρ ε 0 {\displaystyle \nabla \cdot \mathbf {E} ={\frac {\rho }{\varepsilon _{0}}}} Gauss's law for magnetism ∇ ⋅ B = 0 {\displaystyle...
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    {\displaystyle \Phi _{M}} is a scalar potential.: 192  Substituting this in Gauss's law gives ∇ 2 Φ M = ∇ ⋅ M . {\displaystyle \nabla ^{2}\Phi _{M}=\nabla \cdot...
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    From Gauss's law for magnetism, ∇ ⋅ H = 0, so − ∇ 2 H = ∇ × J . {\displaystyle -\nabla ^{2}\mathbf {H} =\nabla \times \mathbf {J} .} Using Ohm's law, J...
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    Gaussian surface (category Carl Friedrich Gauss)
    used in conjunction with Gauss's law for the corresponding field (Gauss's law, Gauss's law for magnetism, or Gauss's law for gravity) by performing a...
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    Charlotte Waldeck, Gauss's mother-in-law, pleaded with Olbers to try to provide Gauss with another position far from Göttingen. Gauss's first assistant was...
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    between electricity and magnetism, showing that frame of reference determines if an observation follows electric or magnetic laws. It motivates a compact...
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    Magnetic flux (category Magnetism)
    This law is a consequence of the empirical observation that magnetic monopoles have never been found. In other words, Gauss's law for magnetism is the...
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    \left({\boldsymbol {\nabla }}\cdot \mathbf {B} \right)\mathbf {B} } because of Gauss's law for magnetism: f = ε 0 [ ( ∇ ⋅ E ) E − E × ( ∇ × E ) ] + 1 μ 0 [ ( ∇ ⋅ B ) B...
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    Magnetic field (category Magnetism)
    are called solenoidal vector fields.) This property is called Gauss's law for magnetism and is equivalent to the statement that there are no isolated...
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    Great Men of Science Whose Names are Used in Measuring Electricity and Magnetism. Burgess Publishing Company. pp. 86–107. ISBN 9780808749080. Ronalds,...
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    {r-r'} \over {|\mathbf {r-r'} |}^{3}}\mathrm {d} ^{3}|\mathbf {r} '|} Gauss's law states that "the total electric flux through any closed surface in free...
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    unifying electricity, magnetism, and optics into the field of electromagnetism. However, Gauss's interpretation of magnetism is not fully compatible...
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    the potentials. Faraday's law and Gauss's law for magnetism (the homogeneous equations) turn out to be identically true for any potentials. This is because...
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    charges that lie outside the closed surface. While Gauss's law holds for all situations, it is most useful for "by hand" calculations when high degrees of symmetry...
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  • Gauss's law for magnetism, and the mass continuity equation. The ideal induction equation can be rewritten using a vector identity and Gauss's law for...
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    rise to the magnetic field. The other two equations are Gauss's law and Gauss's law for magnetism. Maxwell's equations established that some charges and...
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    algebraic varieties Gauss–Newton line – described in Journal for Geometry and Graphics, see also Newton line Gauss's area formula Gauss's lemma in Riemannian...
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    Magnetic vector potential (category Magnetism)
    automatically satisfy two of Maxwell's equations: Gauss's law for magnetism and Faraday's law. For example, if A {\displaystyle \mathbf {A} } is continuous...
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    charges, described by Gauss's law, and time varying magnetic fields, described by Faraday's law of induction. Together, these laws are enough to define...
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  • Coulomb's law can be found from Gauss's law (electrostatic form) and the Biot–Savart law can be deduced from Ampere's law (magnetostatic form). Lenz's law and...
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  • was formulated by Carl Friedrich Gauss. See also Gauss's law for gravity, and Gauss's law for magnetism. Gay-Lussac's law: "The pressure of a fixed mass...
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    when the animals are under high-voltage power lines, suggesting that magnetism is responsible. Other researchers reported in 2011 that they could not...
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