Gauss's law

In physics (specifically electromagnetism), Gauss's law, also known as Gauss's flux theorem, (or sometimes simply called Gauss's theorem) is one of Maxwell's equations. It relates the distribution of electric charge to the resulting electric field.

This article is about Gauss's law concerning the electric field. For analogous laws concerning different fields, see Gauss's law for magnetism and Gauss's law for gravity. For the Ostrogradsky–Gauss theorem, a mathematical theorem relevant to all of these laws, see Divergence theorem.
Not to be confused with Gause's law.

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