GAUSS'S LAW Gauss's Law, a cornerstone of electromagnetism, relates the electric flux through a closed surface to the enclosed electric charge. It essentially states that the total electric flux out of a closed surface is directly proportional to the enclosed electric charge, with the constant of proportionality being the permittivity of free space. This law is one of Maxwell's equations and is a powerful tool for calculating electric fields, particularly for charge distributions with high symme