An electric field of magnitude 457 V/m passing through a flat square plate of length 0.556 m on a side makes an angle of 63.8 degrees with the surface of plate. Determine the electric flux passing through the surface of the square plate. (Hint: the angle given here is the angle that the field makes with the surface, not with the area vector. In what direction does the area vector of a surface point relative to that surface?)

An electric field of magnitude 457 V/m passing through a flat square plate of length 0.556 m on a side makes an angle of 63.8 degrees with the surface of plate. Determine the electric flux passing through the surface of the square plate. (Hint: the angle given here is the angle that the field makes with the surface, not with the area vector. In what direction does the area vector of a surface point relative to that surface?)

College Physics

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Author:Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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