Sunday, 15 November 2015

electrostatics - Only perpendicular field lines contribute to flux. Why?


The flux due to an electric field is given by $E\cdot A$, which means only the electric field lines that are perpendicular to the area A count (same for the perpendicular component of the field, if it exists), while calculating flux. Is there a way to think of it rather intuitively?




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