Gauss's Law and the Electrostatic Field
By Dr. Eugene Patronis
The concept of the electric field may be hazy to some readers so we will begin by reviewing some fundamentals. I am assuming that everyone is familiar with the fact that electric charge exists in two fundamental forms termed positive and negative as originally suggested by Benjamin Franklin and that physical materials can be distinguished electrically as being either conductors, insulators, semiconductors, or very rarely superconductors