Wednesday, 3 June 2015

electricity - What is Electric-flux?


I've searched the question in the forum, and found the following conclusion : -


"In electromagnetism, electric flux is the rate of flow of the electric field through a given area. Electric flux is proportional to the number of electric field lines going through a virtual surface.



But, It doesn't make intuitive sense to me, that electric flux is just something that we can count like no. of lines, I don't think electric field is passing in lines literally, so what exactly is Electric flux? and Rate of flow suggest that it's moving like water flow in river. These ideas are difficult for me to grasp, please clarify.




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