Mention applications of Gauss’s law.

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The applications of Gauss's law are as below :

$(1)$ To obtain field due to an infinitely long straight uniformly charged wire.

$(2)$ To obtain field due to uniformly charged infinite plane sheet.

$(3)$ To obtain field due to uniformly charged thin spherical shell.

$(4)$ To obtain field due to uniformly charged sphere.

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