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184_notes:gauss_motive [2018/07/24 14:43] – [Motivation for Gauss's Law] curdemma184_notes:gauss_motive [2018/07/24 14:47] – [Conceptualizing Gauss's Law around a Point Charge] curdemma
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   - The area of the imagined bubble or imagined Gaussian surface increases. The increase in area is proportional to $r^2$ because the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere#Surface_area|surface area of a sphere]] is $A=4\pi r^2$.   - The area of the imagined bubble or imagined Gaussian surface increases. The increase in area is proportional to $r^2$ because the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere#Surface_area|surface area of a sphere]] is $A=4\pi r^2$.
  
-This suggests that the electric field at the surface of the imaginary sphere multiplied by the surface area of the imaginary sphere is a constant; this product is called [[+This suggests that //the electric field at the surface of the imaginary sphere multiplied by the surface area of the imaginary sphere is a constant//; this product is called [[
 184_notes:e_flux|electric flux]].  184_notes:e_flux|electric flux]]. 
  
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