Keep along the upper-sheet current and upward, putting the lower sheet at and upper sheet at . Between them, the upper sheet's lower-side magnetic field is . The lower sheet carries current in , so its upper-side magnetic field is also . The superposition principle therefore givesEach perfect conductor is an equipotential. The circuit's resistor carries current from upper to lower, so Ohm's law fixes their electric potential difference:The broad parallel faces and their constant potentials make the electric field perpendicular to them and independent of the coordinates along them, away from edges. There is no volume electric charge in the gap. Apply Gauss's law to a small pillbox wholly within the gap, with equal face areas at heights . Its side flux is zero, soThus is independent of height as well. Since ,It points from the higher-potential upper sheet to the lower sheet. Gauss's law requires the planar symmetry argument: zero enclosed charge alone would not prove a uniform electric field in a general geometry. These combined fields characterize parallel current sheets with a resistive termination.