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How to Visualize Electric Fields

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Apply Gauss law to show that for a charged spherical shell the electric field outside the shell is as if the entire charge were concentrated at the centr

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Q. State Gauss law in electrostatics. Using the law derive an expression for electric field due to a uniformly charged thin spherical shell at a point outside the shell.

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