Electric flux Definition and 272 Threads

  1. F

    Calculating Volume Charge Density for Electric Flux in a Box

    Homework Statement The electric flux density in space is given as D = 2xy(ax)+x^2(ay) C/m^2. A box is given as: 0<=x<=1; 0<=y<=2;0<=z<=3 (m). It is found that the total electric flux out of the box is (Wo). The charges creating the electric flux density D are now removed and replaced by a...
  2. D

    What is the Electric Flux Through a Disk with a Charge at 0.5R?

    what is the electric flux through a disk with a radius R when a charge of q is placed at a distance of 0.5R perpendicular to the centre of the disk ?
  3. D

    Finding Electric Flux of Cube with E Field

    given a cube,each side with a lenth of A, placed at with its back left hand bottom corner at (0,0,0). find the electric flux passing through the sides if the electric field is a) E=(-3x)i + (2y)j + (4z)k b) E=(sin(pi*x/A)i + cos(pi*y/2A)j for a) since the area of each side is A2...
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    Why Are the Integration Limits for Spherical Coordinates 0 to Pi and 0 to 2Pi?

    Homework Statement I am reading through my textbook about an application of the divergence theorem involving a point charge enclosed by some arbitrary Gaussian surface. When the author evaluates the ∫sE dot dA, they rewrite the expression as a double integral in spherical coordinates I am...
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    Clarification on Electric Flux

    A question has 2 spheres of different diameters surrounding equal charges 'q'. Diameter of sphere A is smaller than diameter of sphere B. Now are the flux for both equal or not? I think they are equal because total flux = Qenclose/ epsilon-knot, so flux only depends on the charges. But then...
  6. J

    How Does Distance Affect Electric Flux Through a Square?

    Homework Statement In the figure, a point charge -3.2μ C is a distance d/2 directly above the center of a square of side d = 0.34 cm . What is the magnitude of the electric flux through the square? (Hint: Think of the square as on face of a cube with edge d.) (in N*m^2/C) Homework...
  7. D

    Net Electric Flux: Homework Part A, Part B

    Homework Statement This is the question. Charges q1= -6Q and q2 = +2Q are located at x =-a and x = +a, respectively. Homework Equations Part A What is the net electric flux through a sphere of radius 2a centered at the origin? Part B What is the net electric flux through a sphere of...
  8. E

    Estimate the electric flux through the sphere

    Homework Statement A point charge Q is placed a distance 2R above the center of an imaginary spherical surface of radius R. Estimate the electric flux through the sphere Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I think the answer is 0 as Gauss law states that the net...
  9. O

    Calculating Electric Flux Through a Cube with a Non-Uniform Electric Field

    Homework Statement Homework Equations E * A The Attempt at a Solution I need to find the electric flux through each face. I am a bit confused. I believe the flux through sides 3 and 1 are zero because those sides are parallel to the electric field. The whole flux through the cube should be...
  10. K

    What is the electric flux through a surface with a point charge at its center?

    Homework Statement A flate surface with area 0.14m^2 lies in x-y plane in a uniform electric field given by E=5.1i+2.1j+3.5k kN/c find the flux through this surface Homework Equations I know that flux= EA which E and A are given so I multiply The area with the victor E but I got a...
  11. J

    Electric flux through a multihedral face

    Homework Statement An object with a charge of 0.920 C is placed at the center of a regular tetrahedron with 4 equivalent surfaces. What is the electric flux through one surface of the tetrahedron? Homework Equations For an n-sided polygon Electric Flux = Charge / (n)(Eo) The...
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    How Is Electric Flux Calculated Using Gauss's Law for a Nonconducting Cylinder?

    Homework Statement A long solid nonconducting cylinder has radius r = 0.65 meters. It has a uniform charge density of 3.7 C/m3. Consider a cylinderical container concentric with the charged cylinder, with radius R = 1.5 m, and length L = 2 m. Calculate the flux through the barrel of the...
  13. Z

    How to Calculate Electric Flux Through a Tilted Box?

    Homework Statement A empty cardboard box is placed in an electric field pointing upwards with a strength of 1100 N/C as shown above. The bottom of the box is tilted up by an angle Θ = 19° from the horizontal. Side A of the box faces out of the page and is 10 cm high and 14 cm long. Sides B and...
  14. F

    Conceptual question about electric flux

    I am studying electric flux through both a disk, cube, and sphere. I understand how the flux is calculated in a disk, but I don't understand how the flux through a cube with the point charge outside the cube is equal to zero when the disk is not. Is this because the disk is 2-D? Thank you for...
  15. S

    How to Calculate Electric Flux through a Pyramid's Slanted Surfaces?

    Homework Statement A pyramid with horizontal square base, 6.00 m on each side, and a hieght of 4.00 m is placed in a vertical electric field of 52.0 N/C. Calculate the total electric flux through the pyramid's four slanted surfaces. Homework Equations Phi = E*A*cos(theta) The...
  16. M

    What does the infinitesimal surface area element in flux represent?

    OK so I took my multivariable calculus class last year and at that time, when we learned about flux I understood it as the sum of the outward facing components of every vector generated by a vector field at every point on a surface. F dot N integrated over the surface area of the surface. I...
  17. N

    Calculating Electric Flux Through a Cube: A Simple Guide

    A charge of 12 x 10^-6 C is at the geometric center of a cube. Find the Electric Flux through one of the faces? My class would have rather left early on friday than go over this example so now I have no clue how to find this.
  18. J

    Electric flux trough an infinite plane 2

    Sorry, what I posted earlier was wrong.. here is the question: an charge Q is at the origin. Find the electric flux an infinite plane at z distance from z axis. Please check my attempts to the solution. Please check what's wrong in it because until now I am not getting the correct answer...
  19. J

    Electric Flux through an Infinite Plane

    Homework Statement A point charge 60 microcoulomb is located in the origin. An infinite plane located at z=5. What is the electric flux in the plane due to the charge? Q=60x10^-6 C at 0,0,0 (origin) z=5 (plane) Here, I consider the electric flux emanating from Q that passes through...
  20. J

    Electric flux definition confusion

    Help. I am confused. I have read two different infos in different textbooks. I have read the topic about electric flux in different books. The first book says that electric flux is simply the Q (charge)in an enclosed surface, on the other hand, the other book says that electric flux is the...
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    Electric Flux: Is it an Integer or a Real Value?

    I have a doubt about electric flux. It is said to be the no. of field lines passing through a given area. But then we integrate it as: \int\vec{E}.\vec{ds}=\Phi However, bein the number of field lines does it not have to be an integer?
  22. R

    Electric flux through a circular plate

    http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/7047/problemhi1.jpg Now I have gone about solving this problem by drawing a sphere with Q centred in it, let's call this sphere A1, now this circle defined by r=5 (lets call this circle C) cuts this sphere perfectly creating a spherical surface let's call...
  23. A

    Electric flux and electric fields

    Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with the following problem. Any insight as to what I'm doing wrong? Homework Statement A solid metal sphere with radius 0.900 m carries a net charge of 0.130 nC. Find the magnitude of the electric field at at a point inside the sphere, 0.100 m below the...
  24. A

    Electric Flux due to Two Point Charges: Analysis and Calculations

    A point charge q_1 = 3.40 {\rm nC} is located on the x-axis at x = 1.80 {\rm m}, and a second point charge q_2 = -5.80 {\rm nC} is on the y-axis at y = 1.10 {\rm m} What is the total electric flux due to these two point charges through a spherical surface centered at the origin and with...
  25. D

    Electric flux through closed surface

    Homework Statement Find the total electric flux through the closed surface defined by p = 0.26, z = \pm 0.26 due to a point charge of 60\mu C located at the origin. Note that in this question, p is defined to be what r is defined conventionally, and \phi takes the place of \theta. This is...
  26. K

    Calculating Electric Flux for a Point Charge in a Cube

    Homework Statement A 1.3microC point charge is placed at the center of a cube with a volume of 9.8m^3. Calculate the electric flux through one side of the cube. Homework Equations E = \frac{k*q}{r^2} \Phi = E*A The Attempt at a Solution So what i was trying was this...
  27. M

    Electric flux through one face of the cube.

    A point charge Q = 5.00 µC is located at the center of a cube of side L= 0.120 m. In addition, six other identical point charges having q = -0.50 µC are positioned symmetrically around Q, as shown in Figure P24.19. Determine the electric flux through one face of the cube.
  28. M

    Electric Flux Through a Uniform Electric Field

    You have a uniform electric field described by the vector (4 i + 2 j + 13 k)N/C and a flat surface describe by the vector (5 i + 9 j - 2 k)m2. What is the electric flux through this surface?
  29. rohanprabhu

    Electric Flux question [Surface integral]

    Homework Statement Q] A charge 'Q' is kept over a non-conducting square plate of side 'l' at a height l/2 over the center of the plate. Find the electric flux through the square plate surface. Neglect any induction that may occur. Homework Equations \phi = \int \overrightarrow{E}\cdot...
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    Net Electric Flux & Enclosed Objects

    If I were to take an enclosed object, like a rock, container, etc... and put it within an electric field any distance away from the source charge (so long as the source charge isn't inside the object)...would the net electric flux always be zero?
  31. tony873004

    Calculating Electric Flux Through Cube's Left Face

    A cube of side L=2.0 m is centered at the origin, with the coordinate axes perpendicular to its faces. Find the flux of the electric field \overrightarrow E = \left( {15{\rm{ N/C}}} \right){\rm{\hat i + }}\left( {{\rm{27 N/C}}} \right){\rm{\hat j + }}\left( {{\rm{39 N/C}}} \right){\rm{\hat k}}...
  32. J

    What is the electric flux through the top surface of the cube?

    Homework Statement A 3 nC point charge is at the center of 5 m x 5 m x 5 m cube. What is the electric flux through the top surface of the cube? Homework Equations E=kq/r^2 φ = E.A The Attempt at a Solution E = (8.99*109)(3*10-9) / 2.52 = 4.3152 N/C φ = E.A = (4.3152)(5*5) =...
  33. J

    What Is the Correct Charge to Use for Calculating Electric Flux in a Torus?

    Homework Statement What is the net electric flux through the the torus if a=-6 nC and b=60 nC ? Homework Equations Electric flux=Qin/E The Attempt at a Solution I solved with Qin being 6*10^-9 C as it is the charge inside and E0=8.85*10^-12. I got 678 for electric flux. But it...
  34. K

    Electric Flux Calculation for Uniform Field in Closed Shoe Box - [SOLVED]

    [SOLVED] Electric flux help needed 1. A Uniform electric field of magniture 6.00x10^3 N/C points upward. An empty closed shoe box has a top and bottom that are .35m by .25m, vertical ends that are .25m by .20m, and vertical sides that are .20m by .35m. Calculate the electric flux through each...
  35. N

    Electric flux from line charge through plane strip

    Hey there! :) Homework Statement A uniform line charge with linear charge density = 6nC/m is situated coincident with the x-axis. Find the electric flux per unit length of line passing through a plane strip extending in the x direction with edges at y=1, z=0, and y=1, z=5. The final answer...
  36. R

    Electric Flux and Gauss' Law of point charges

    Homework Statement A point charge q_{1} = 4.15 \times 10^-6 is located on the x-axis at x = 1.80 m, and a second point charge q_{2} = -5.80 \times 10^-6 C is on the y-axis at y = 1.10 m. What is the total electric flux due to these two point charges through a spherical surface centered at...
  37. C

    Electric flux through gaussian cube

    Homework Statement I have a cube with four faces parallel to the field and two perpendicular. The field is non uniform, given by E = 3 + 2x^2 in the +x direction. The Attempt at a Solution So I get \phi = \int \vec{E} \cdot d\vec{A} = \int EdA = A \int E = A \int (3+2x^2) But how do I...
  38. W

    Electric Flux: Understanding and Explaining

    Homework Statement Can some one explain Electric flux to me. I know it is suppose to measure the flow electricity but why is flux indepenent of area size?
  39. X

    Electric Flux through a hemisphere

    Homework Statement "What is the flux through the hemispherical open surface of radius R? The uniform field has magnitude E. Hint: Don't use a messy integral!" \mid \vec{E} \mid= E radius = R Homework Equations Electric Flux over a surface (in general) \Phi = \int \vec{E} \cdot \,dA...
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    Electric Flux through Planar Surfaces

    Homework Statement The drawing shows an edge-on view of two planar surfaces that intersect and are mutually perpendicular. Surface 1 has an area of 1.2 m², while surface 2 has an area of 3.5 m². The electric field E in the drawing is uniform and has a magnitude of 246 N/C. Image...
  41. K

    What is the Electric Flux through a Vertical Wall Facing East?

    [b]1. The problem is: A vertical wall (5.9m x2.5m) in a house faces due east. A uniform electric field has a magnitude of 150 N/C. This field is parallel to the ground and points 35degrees north of east. What is the electric flux through the wall? [b]2. Homework Equations : Electric...
  42. S

    Electric Flux through an Infinite Plane due to a Point charge

    Homework Statement A point charge of 43 microcoulombs is located a distance 48 meters from an infinite plane. Determine the electric flux through the plane due to the point charge. Homework Equations flux = integral E d A = enclosed charge / epsilon_0 E = kQ / r^2 The Attempt at a...
  43. R

    Determine the electric flux through each of the sides

    A 2.10- mC charge is placed at the center of a cube of sides 6.40 cm. Determine the electric flux through each of the sides. ok so electric flux=E(A) so i figure that the electic flux will be the same for all six sides of the cube so i am just calculating the flux on one side then X6...
  44. J

    Wheres a good site to look up electric flux?

    Homework Statement A square loop with resistance 15 ohms is placed perpendicular to a time varying magnetic field; the loop is 8.2 cm. The magnetic field is changing with a rate of 3.4 x 10^-7 T/s. -Draw the loop, magnetic field, and current in the diagram -calculate the rate at which the...
  45. S

    The Physics of Electric Flux Density Vector (D)

    Why is D called the "electric flux density vector"?
  46. S

    Calculating Electric Flux Through a Cube

    Electric Flux of a cube Homework Statement A point charge of magnitude 9.10 nC is at the center of a cube with sides of length 0.685 m. What is the electric flux through each of the six faces of the cube? What would be the flux Phi_1 through a face of the cube if its sides were of...
  47. S

    Electric Field and Conductor Properties

    Homework Statement A cylindrical piece of insulating material is placed in an external electric field, as shown in the figure. The net electric flux passing through the surface of the cylinder is a.positive. b.negative. c.zero. Figure ...
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    Net electric flux through torus

    Homework Statement What is the net electric flux through the torus (i.e., doughnut shape) of the figure Homework Equations net flux= E*A I believe is needed The Attempt at a Solution I don't know how to do this problem at all. I feel like I don't have enough information to...
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    How Do You Calculate Electric Flux Through a Circular Disk in an Electric Field?

    Homework Statement "Given a constant electric field E = E(subscript 0)(1 / square root of 2 i + 1 / square root of 2 k), find the electric flux through a circular disk of radius a lying flat in the x-y plane. Orient the disk so that the positive direction is toward positive z. Homework...
  50. J

    How Does Gauss' Law Apply to Non-Zero Electric Flux in a Rectangular Box?

    Homework Statement A charge Q is located inside a rectangular box. The electric flux through each of the six surfaces of the box is: Φ1=+1500 Φ2=+2200 Φ3=+4600 Φ4=-1800 Φ5=-3500 Φ6=-5400. (unit: N x m^2/C) What is Q?Homework Equations ΦE =Q/ε The Attempt at a Solution Add up all the Φ's to...
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