Lecture 3: Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples

author: Walter H. G. Lewin, Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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"Today we're going to work on a whole new concept and that is the concept of electric flux. We've come a long way. We started out with Coulomb's law. We got electric field lines. And now we have electric flux.

Suppose I have an electric field which is like so and I bring in that electric field a surface, an open surface like a handkerchief or a piece of paper. And so here it is. Something like that. And I carve this surface up in very small surface elements, each with size DA, that's the area, teeny weeny little area, and let this be the normal, N roof, the normal on that surface.

So now the local electric field say at that location would be for instance this. It's a vector..."

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Comment1 Abhishek Kumar, December 31, 2008 at 8:22 a.m.:

thats a great video thanks sir


Comment2 mohamed, February 24, 2009 at 6:34 p.m.:

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Comment3 gina sucayan, July 22, 2009 at 4:32 p.m.:

can i ask for help?
can u answer this questions for me?

"Surface charge densities of 200,-50 and psxµC/m2 are located at r=3,5, and 7 cm respectively. find D at r=4cm? find psx if D=0 at r=7.32 cm?

thanks. ill wait for response. i'll just find it hard to solve.


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I'm a junior mechanical engineering major. Having taken this class as a freshman, I now realize why MIT is so selective and expensive. I'm taken aback at the amount of content this course covers per lecture, the gift Dr. Lewin has for teaching, and the things I'm learning as I watch.

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thanks for that lecture professor.am a student at kenyatta university.


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I AM a STUDENT IN ADAMA UNIVERSITY IN ETHIOPIA THE DEPARTEMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

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a really nice lecture sir
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