ABSTRACT
The procedure for applying Gauss’s law to calculate the electric field involves the introduction of Gaussian surfaces, which are closed surfaces on which electric field is either constant or zero. With the help of Gauss’s law, the amount of enclosed charge could be assessed by mapping the field on a surface outside the charge distribution. Gauss’s law states that the net electric flux through any closed surface enclosing a homogeneous volume of material is equal to the net electric charge enclosed by that closed surface. A closed surface in a three-dimensional space through which the flux of a vector field is calculated is known as Gaussian surface. Gaussian surfaces are normally carefully chosen in order to exploit symmetries to simplify the evaluation of the surface integral. If the electric field is known everywhere, then with the help of integral form of Gauss’s law, the charge in any given field region can be deduced by integrating the electric field.
