Prerequisites to Flux

Students need to know how to calculate integrals on surfaces:

  • Dot Product (for finding the components of vector field perpendicular to surface)
  • Cross Product (for finding unit vector normal to surface)
  • Electric Field as vector field (for calculating electric flux)
  • Surface Element in Rectangular and Curvilinear Coordinates (finding unit vector normal to surface)
  • Scalar Surface Integrals (for finding total flux)

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