Electrostatics 3 Question 18
18. An infinitely long uniform line charge distribution of charge per unit length lies parallel to the -axis in the - plane at (see figure). If the magnitude of the flux of the electric field through the rectangular surface lying in the plane with its centre at the origin is
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is cross-section of a cylinder of length . The line charge passes through the centre and perpendicular to paper.
Electric flux passing from the whole cylinder