Chapter 24: Q. 9 (page 683)
What is the electric flux through the surface shown in FIGURE EX24.9?

Short Answer
The electric flux through the surface is
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Chapter 24: Q. 9 (page 683)
What is the electric flux through the surface shown in FIGURE EX24.9?

The electric flux through the surface is
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What is the electric flux through each of the surfaces in FIGURE Q24.5? Give each answer as a multiple of .

InFIGURE Q24.4, where the field is uniform, is the magnitude of larger than, smaller than, or equal to the magnitude of ? Explain.

shows a solid metal sphere at the center of a hollow metal sphere. What is the total charge on (a) the exterior of the inner sphere, (b) the inside surface of the hollow sphere, and (c) the exterior surface of the hollow sphere?

All examples of Gauss's law have used highly symmetric surfaces where the flux integral is either zero or EA. Yet we've claimed that the net is independent of the surface. This is worth checking. FIGURE CP24.57 shows a cube of edge length centered on a long thin wire with linear charge density . The flux through one face of the cube is not simply EA because, in this case, the electric field varies in both strength and direction. But you can calculate the flux by actually doing the flux integral.

a. Consider the face parallel to the -plane. Define area as a strip of width and height with the vector pointing in the -direction. One such strip is located at position localid="1648838849592" . Use the known electric field of a wire to calculate the electric flux localid="1648838912266" through this little area. Your expression should be written in terms of , which is a variable, and various constants. It should not explicitly contain any angles.
b. Now integrate to find the total flux through this face.
c. Finally, show that the net flux through the cube is .
A tetrahedron has an equilateral triangle base with-long edges and three equilateral triangle sides. The base is parallel to the ground, and a vertical uniform electric field of strength passes upward through the tetrahedron. a. What is the electric flux through the base? b. What is the electric flux through each of the three sides?
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