College Physics:
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Author: SERWAY, Raymond A.
Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub Co
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Chapter 15, Problem 14CQ
A spherical surface surrounds a point charge q. Describe what happens to the total flux through the surface if (a) the charge is tripled, (b) the volume of the sphere is doubled, (c) the surface is changed to a cube, (d) the charge is moved to another location inside the surface, and (e) the charge is moved outside the surface.
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