MIT 8.02X: Electricity and Magnetism Dr. Walter Lewin Quincy's Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lecture 3: ELECTROSTATICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - If net charge neutral in closed surface, total flux is zero. - Gauss's Law ALWAYS holds but is only useful in symmetric cases. - Charge UNIFORMLY distributed on sphere is same as point charge when outside sphere. - Gauss's Law holds because E-field drops off as 1/r2