What is the Physical Significance of Curl in Gauss Law?

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is gauss law (i.e surface integeral of E.ds is equal to charge enclosed upon epsilon not ) valid for charges in motion or is it just valid for electrostatic conditions ?
 
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Yes. Gauss's law is one of the four equations of Maxwell which apply to all classical electromagnetic phenomena, static and dynamic. Gauss's law is basically a law of divergence. This concept has applications in more than just electromagnetism.
 
thanks a lot ... what is the physical significance of curl of a vector field ?
 

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