Module 2 : Electrostatics
Lecture 7 : Electric Flux
 

Example 6 :
A charge $Q$is located at the center of a sphere of radius $R$. Calculate the flux going out through the surface of the sphere.

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By Coulomb's law, the field due to the charge $Q$is radial and is given on the surface of the sphere by,

\begin{displaymath}\vec E = \frac{1}{4\pi\epsilon_0}\frac{Q}{R^2}\hat r\end{displaymath}

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