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Vector Calculus Activities - Visualizing Electric Flux

This is a nice project on a physics application of flux integrals. Students compute the flux integral through a cube of the electric field of a point charge located (1) at the center of the cube, (2) anywhere inside the cube, (3) on a face of the cube, (4) on an edge of the cube and (5) at a vertex of the cube. Although a Maple worksheet for (1) is provided, any other computer algebra system could be used.

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http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/doku.php?id=activities:main&file=vffluxem
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Creator(s): 
Corinne Manogue and Shannon Mayer
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Philip Yasskin
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