Gauss (unit)

It was named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1936.

One gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimetre.

The SI unit for magnetic flux density is the tesla (symbol T),[1] which corresponds to 10,000gauss.

When the unit is spelled out, it is written in lowercase ("gauss"), unless it begins a sentence.

[2]: 147–148  The gauss may be combined with metric prefixes,[3]: 128  such as in milligauss, mG (or mGs), or kilogauss, kG (or kGs).

The units for magnetic flux Φ, which is the integral of magnetic B-field over an area, are the weber (Wb) in the SI and the maxwell (Mx) in the CGS-Gaussian system.

The conversion factor is 108 maxwell per weber, since flux is the integral of field over an area, area having the units of the square of distance, thus 104 G/T (magnetic field conversion factor) times the square of 102 cm/m (linear distance conversion factor).