StellarThe flux describes the flow of a vector field through a surface. It quantifies how many field vectors pass through the surface. It is the dot product of the area vector A (perpendicular to the surface) and the field .
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8.4 Electric Fields of Charge Distributions
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- 8.5Electric FluxOpen lesson
- 8.6Gauss’s LawOpen lesson
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