Question
Three pairs of cardinal points are employed in an approach to optics named for this scientist that relies on the paraxial approximation. This scientist names light beams whose shapes are entirely determined by beam waist. This inventor of the magnetometer also names closed surfaces through which the (*) flux of a vector field is calculated. A law named for this scientist states that the divergence of the B-field equals zero, which implies that magnetic monopoles cannot exist. The electric flux through the boundary of a region of space equals the enclosed charge divided by epsilon-naught, according to this scientist’s namesake law. For 10 points, name this German polymath who names two of Maxwell’s equations. ■END■
ANSWER: Carl Friedrich Gauss [or Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss; accept Gaussian optics or Gaussian beams or Gaussian surfaces or Gauss’ Law of Magnetism]
<Lalit Maharjan, Science - Physics> ~24930~ <Editor: David Bass>
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