A Little Gauss: A Calculator & the Law

Playing with coils? Have you ever wondered the strength of a magnetic field at a given frequency? Well, just in case that you need to geek-out, here is a Gauss calculator I have used in the past when playing with coils.

Gauss Calculator for Excel

And what a better way to get to understand a little Gauss Law as it applies to conductors than to watch Professor Ramamurti Shankar from Yale explain it.

And for those who wish to look at it a little closer, then here's the video's transcript:

          830: FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS II
          Lecture 4 - Gauss's Law and Application to Conductors and Insulators [January 20, 2010]
          Chapter 1: Derivation of Gauss's Law [00:00:00]
          Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Let's start with a brief recall of Gauss's Law...  
          (read the rest here)

For the complete course, visit Yale's PHYS 201: Fundamentals of Physics II web page.