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Homework Statement
The electric field has been measured to be horizontal and to the right everywhere on the closed box shown in the figure. All over the left side of the box E1 = 90 V/m, and all over the right, slanting, side of the box E2 = 400 V/m. On the top the average field is E3 = 120 V/m, on the front and back the average field is E4 = 175 V/m, and on the bottom the average field is E5 = 245 V/m.
How much charge is inside the box? Use the accurate value ε0 = 8.85e-12 C2/N·m2.
The Attempt at a Solution
I have been working these homework problems no problem when it is just rectangles and cylinders and other shapes where Nhat and E both point in the same direction, however I thought that when it was not the same you had to use cosin of the angle made between Nhat and E. However it does not give me an angle. Am I going about this the wrong way?