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Subject: How do I determine what the electric flux through a sphere is?

Date: Sun Feb 6 17:07:48 2000
Posted by Andrea
Grade level: undergrad School: Unv. of Toledo
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Physics
ID: 949878468.Ph
Message:

We're studying Gauss' Law in General Physics,and I have only one hair left 
on my head, as I have pulled it all out trying to figure out this 
problem.  I understand that if a point charge is located at the origin of 
a coordinate system and a Gaussian sphere with a 1m radius is located 
elsewhere on the coordinate system the electric flux is zero.  Now, if the 
sphere is located at the origin, a point charge is located elsewhere on 
the coordinate system, and the sphere's radius is doubled, how does this 
affect the electric flux?  Is it still zero?


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