General Physics 2

LESSON 3
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 ELECTRIC FLUX
AND GAUSS’S
LAW
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 OBJECTIVES:
• Calculate electric flux.
• Use Gauss’s law to infer electric field due to
uniformly distributed charges on long wires, spheres, and
large plates.
• Solve problems involving electric charges, dipoles,
forces, fields, and flux in contexts such as, but not limited
to, systems of point charges, electrical breakdown of air,
charged pendulums, electrostatic ink -jet printers.
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 ELECTRIC FLUX
 measures how much the electric field 'flows'
through an area. Electric flux is proportional
to the number of electric field lines going
through a normal perpendicular surface.
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 ELECTRIC FLUX FORMULA

Φ =𝑬(𝑨)
Φ - electric flux
E- electric field
A- area
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 EXAMPLE

What is the electric flux through a

sphere that has a radius of 1.00 m
and carries a charge of +1.00 µC at
its center?
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 ELECTRIC FLUX FORMULA

Φ =𝑬(𝑨)
Φ - electric flux
E- electric field
A- area
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 EXAMPLE
What is the electric flux for the following sets of
variables?

a. θ = 75˚
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 EXAMPLE

What is the electric flux for the following sets of

variables?
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 Gauss’s Law
It states that the electric flux through any closed
surface is equal to the net charge inside the surface
divided by the permittivity of free space.
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 Example
What is the flux from a 12μC charge inside of a
sphere?
−6
12 × 1 0
∅= −12
8.854 × 10
2
𝑁𝑚 6
∅ =1. 3 6 × 10
𝐶
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 Example:

You have a cube with a 6μC charge in the

center. Each of the cube's sides is 12cm long.
What is the flux through one of the faces of the
cube?
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 Example:

A closed irregular surface encloses a net

charge of 1.50 x 10 -6 C. what is the net
electric flux through the surface?
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