Question

If coulomb's law depended 1/r^3, would gauss' law still hold?

Answer 1

Answer:

If coulomb's law involve 1/r^3 dependence (instead of 1/r^2) where r is distance between two point charged, would gauss's law still be true? No it wont. The gist of Gauss' Law is that electric field lines can only start or end at charges.

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