Gauss law Memes

That special moment in physics class when your brain decides to erase Coulomb's Law right before the exam. Now you're stuck in that narrow alley of desperation, forced to derive it from Gauss's Law like some kind of mathematical contortionist. The "(AGAIN)" part is what really sells the trauma - clearly this isn't your first rodeo with electrostatic amnesia. Nothing quite captures the existential dread of a physics exam like realizing you've forgotten the simplest formula and now must reconstruct civilization from scratch while the clock ticks away.

The duality of physics students everywhere! That moment when you first grasp Gauss's Law and realize you can calculate electric fields without those nasty vector calculus integrals? Pure joy! Just enclose your charge in a symmetric surface, and poof - the math simplifies beautifully. But then reality hits harder than a particle accelerator: try applying it to anything that's not a perfect sphere, infinite cylinder, or flat plane, and suddenly you're back to complicated integrals. The universe giveth elegant mathematical shortcuts, and the universe taketh away when your professor assigns problems with weird-shaped charge distributions.