🔖 Topics

  • Magnetic flux
  • Gauss' law for magnetic fields

🎯 Objectives

  • Calculate the magnetic flux through an open surface
  • Calculate the net magnetic flux through a closed surface using Gauss' law for magnetic fields

📋 Sequence

  • Magnetic flux
  • Gauss’ law for magnetic fields
  • Comparison of Gauss’ laws for electric and magnetic fields

🖥️ Animations, Simulations, Activities

N/A

📝 Practice Problems

  1. A uniform magnetic field in a region of space is approximated by \(\vec{B} = 1.5 \hat{x} \: T\). What is the magnetic flux through a 5.0 cm by 5.0 cm sheet that is oriented in the yz-plane?
  2. A uniform magnetic field in a region of space is approximated by \(\vec{B} = 1.5 \hat{x} \: T\). What is the magnetic flux through a 5.0 cm by 5.0 cm sheet that is oriented in the xy-plane?

✅ Partial Solutions

  1. 3.75 mWb
  2. 0.0 Wb

📘 Connected Resources

  • Giambattista, Alan, et al. College Physics With an Integrated Approach to Forces and Kinematics. 5th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.