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electric flux

noun

  1. the lines of force that make up an electric field.


electric flux

noun

  1. the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field Ψ
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electric flux

  1. The electric flux density across a given cross-sectional area in an electric field.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of electric flux1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

If, however, the unit point charge were defined to be that which produces a unit of electric flux through a circumscribing spherical surface or the electric force at distance r defined to be �πr�, many theorems would be enunciated in simpler forms.

Then the quantity E cos θdS is the product of the normal component of the force and an element of the surface, and if this is summed up all over the surface we have the total electric flux or induction through the surface, or the surface integral of the normal force mathematically expressed by ∫E cos θdS, provided that the dielectric constant of the medium is unity.

Hence the total electric flux due to a charge Q through an enclosing surface is 4πQ, and therefore is zero through one enclosing no electricity.

Dependent on an externally induced electric flux.

The current is transmitted to the carbons by two friction rollers, I, I, which serve at the same time as a guide for them, and which give the electric flux a passage of only one or two centimeters over the front of the carbon to form the arc.

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