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Flux through a cube or its faces from a charge at a corner, edge or face centre

This type of question, asked 5 times: 2021 Paper 4, 29 Jan 2023, 4 Apr 2024, 22 Jan 2025, 23 Jan 2026 S1. All 5 questions below, oldest first.

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  1. Question 1

    2021 Paper 4

    8
    A charge ' qq ' is placed at one corner of a cube as shown in figure. The flux of electrostatic field E→\overrightarrow{E} though the shaded area is:

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  2. Question 2

    29 Jan 2023

    4
    In a cuboid of dimension 2 L×2 L×L2\text{ }L \times 2\text{ }L \times L, a charge qq is placed at the center of the surface ' SS ' having area of 4 L24{\text{ }L}^{2}. The flux through the opposite surface to ' SS ' is given by

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  3. Question 3

    4 Apr 2024

    108
    A charge qq is placed at the center of one of the surface of a cube. The flux linked with the cube is:-

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  4. Question 4

    22 Jan 2025

    2
    A line charge of length a2\frac{a}{2} is kept at the center of an edge BCBC of a cube ABCDEFGHABCDEFGH having edge length ' aa ' as shown in the figure. If the density of line is λC\lambda C per unit length, then the total electric flux through all the faces of the cube will be (Take ϵ0\epsilon_{0} as the free space permittivity)

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  5. Question 5

    23 Jan 2026 S1

    15
    Two point charges 2 q and q are placed at vertex A and centre of face CDEF of the cube as shown in figure. The electric flux passing through the cube is :

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