Talk:Electrodynamics/Gauss's Law

Say you have a surface charge plastered over a sphere's surface (which no charge within sphere). Does Gauss' law suggest that E inside the sphere is 0 (since a Gaussian surface fully contained within the sphere will enclose no charge)?

Answer
Yes and no, Gauss's law does not say that there is no electric field flux through an empty area, it just says that the fluxes will all cancel out. But if you do have a spherical shell that is uniformly charged, there will indeed be no electric field inside it. --Frontier 12:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)