A laboratory experiment to demonstrate Gauss’s law for electric fields

This paper describes an experiment that demonstrates Gauss’s law for electric fields. The experiment utilizes easily obtained equipment and requires simple electrostatic field measurements. The field measurements are obtained for azimuthally symmetric electrodes located over a conducting ground plan...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of physics 2008-10, Vol.76 (10), p.963-967
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