Physics · Electric flux, Gauss's law and its applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell
The total number of lines of force passing through a surface is called
The total number of lines of force passing through a surface is called
- A. electric field
- B. electric flux
- C. electric potetial
- D. electrical energy
Step-by-step solution
Electric flux is defined as the total number of electric field lines passing through a given surface. Option A (electric field) is a vector field, option C (electric potential) is scalar potential, and option D (electrical energy) is energy. Only electric flux matches the definition.
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