Upvoted for first paragraph. Nearly took it back for confidently asserting false statements about Gauss’s Law, in direct contradiction of point in first paragraph.
Please note the unconfidence already stated in the first paragraph and the point that I should expect lower standards for myself to be able to say “hey I don’t think this is right” versus “here’s a strong argument I created whole-cloth.” Secondly, I am still reasonably confident about the statements about Gauss’s law that I tried to make, though there is a good chance I have miscommunicated them. See my reply to shminux for an attempt at clarification.
First, I did say ‘nearly’. The only weakening was by that first paragraph. If you’re not so familiar with Gauss’s Law that you can restate the differential and integral forms without half thinking about it, and you hear something like the above, maybe it would have been a good idea to visit the following:
Upvoted for first paragraph. Nearly took it back for confidently asserting false statements about Gauss’s Law, in direct contradiction of point in first paragraph.
Please note the unconfidence already stated in the first paragraph and the point that I should expect lower standards for myself to be able to say “hey I don’t think this is right” versus “here’s a strong argument I created whole-cloth.” Secondly, I am still reasonably confident about the statements about Gauss’s law that I tried to make, though there is a good chance I have miscommunicated them. See my reply to shminux for an attempt at clarification.
First, I did say ‘nearly’. The only weakening was by that first paragraph. If you’re not so familiar with Gauss’s Law that you can restate the differential and integral forms without half thinking about it, and you hear something like the above, maybe it would have been a good idea to visit the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss_Law
Which would have avoided all of this. For further information, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_surface