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JEE Advanced 2022 Paper 2, Physics Section 1 Q6: Gauss's Law

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Q.

A charge is surrounded by a closed surface consisting of an inverted cone of height and base radius , and a hemisphere of radius as shown in the figure. The electric flux through the conical surface is (in SI units). The value of is _________.

Solution

The charge sits on the flat circular disc that forms the common base of the hemisphere and the cone, at its center.

By symmetry, exactly half of the total flux from the point charge goes into each side of the plane of the disc.

Therefore the flux through the conical (downward) side is .

Matching with gives .

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