Question

Calculate the total outward flux of vector through a hollow cylinder

Answer 1

Answer:

THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS ZERO

Explanation:

So in order to solve this question we need to understand the

"GUASS THEORM' which states that the cyclic integral of electric field over a closed surface is equal to the charge enclosed by permittivity of the medium "

Now since the cylinder is hollow it means that there is no upper and lower circular surfaces and the flux is only contributed by the circular part .

Cyclic integral of electric field over a surface is the "electric flux"

Now the charge enclosed in the hollow cylinder is zero indicating that flux is zero.

PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION

This indicates that for every elemental area producing flux there is an other elemental area very similar which produces flux in the opposite direction cancelling out the initial flux so produced.

This could be the very elemental surface just diagonally opposite to the very area considered.