JEE Main 2003PhysicsElectrostaticsElectric Flux And Gauss LaweasyMCQ

JEE Main 2003Electrostatics Question with Solution

From: AIEEE 2003

Question

If the electric flux entering and leaving an enclosed surface respectively is and the electric charge inside the surface will be

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Step-by-step explanation

The flux entering an enclosed surface is taken as negative and the flux leaving the surface is taken as positive, by convention. Therefore the net flux leaving the enclosed surface

the change enclosed in the surface by Gauss's law is

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