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Grade 12Electrostatics

a charge q is at one corner of cube. what is flux through all six faces of cube

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Soumya Ranjan Mohanty
8 Years ago
Assume that the charge is located at origin and the corner of the cube also at origin.
Using Gauss's law and symmetrical argument:
 now if we place 7 more cubes around original cube. Each face of this new cube contains 4 faces of original.
The new big cube has 6 faces placed symmetrically around origin, total= 24 faces.
now the total flux according to Gauss's law is q/epsilon0.
therefore,  flux through each face is q/24 epsilon0.
 
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