
Electric flux through hemisphere - Physics Stack Exchange
Aug 30, 2020 · The electric flux through the curved surface area of a hemisphere of radius R when it is placed in a uniform electric field is? Before this, I was taught the definition of flux as …
How can electric flux be negative? - Physics Stack Exchange
Apr 24, 2020 · Typically in this case we define "outward" flux to be positive, in which case the total electric flux through the surface will be a positive number since the electric field lines point out …
Electric Flux - What is the point? - Physics Stack Exchange
May 16, 2020 · We already know electric flux is the number of field lines passing through any arbitary area or surface. So we can say electric flux is directly proportional to the electric field …
Why is the net flux through a closed surface equal to zero?
Jun 12, 2020 · This leads to the definition of the electric flux. ΔΦE = E ΔA cosθ. ΔΦE is the electric flux through some small area ΔA, whose normal make an angle θ with the direction of …
Electric flux, vector or scalar? - Physics Forums
Dec 11, 2012 · The electric flux density vector is used to calculate the electric flux passing through any and all arbitrarily oriented cross sectional areas dA in space. Of course, for a …
electrostatics - What is Electric flux? - Physics Stack Exchange
Jan 28, 2025 · Electric or Magnetic flux usually come up when considering Faraday and Ampere laws in Maxwell's equations, and appear explicitly in their integral form. It also comes up when …
Flux through side of a cube - Physics Stack Exchange
In the cube shown, the three sides touching the charge contribute no flux because the electric field is parallel to the surface. The other 3 are symmetrically opposed to the charge so they …
Electric Flux through the Face of a Cube - Physics Forums
Jun 24, 2018 · The flux into the volume in this corner must then be equal to the flux out of the three sides away from the centre and can be easily computed to be the solid angle covered by …
Why does electric flux have 'cos θ' in its formula? - Physics Forums
Mar 7, 2015 · To find the flux through a surface you need the component of the field perpendicular to the surface. Taking that component involves the cosine of the angle between the field and …
electricity - Trouble understanding Electric flux and gauss law ...
Jul 15, 2016 · The outward electric flux due of the electric filed due to the positive charge $\vec{E}.d\vec{A}$ (remember that the electric field is the electric flux density. So, when it is …