Some planetary scientists have suggested that the planet Mars has...

Question

Some planetary scientists have suggested that the planet Mars has an electric field somewhat similar to that of the earth, producing a net electric flux of −3.63×1016 N·m2/C at the planet's surface. Calculate: (a) the total electric charge on the planet;

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Welcome back everybody. We are taking a look at a spherical asteroid that produces a net electric flux of 5.26 times to the sixth Newton meter squared per cool. Um and we are tasked with finding what the net charge is for this asteroid. Well, according to God's Law, we know that the flux is equal to the charge enclosed, divided by the electric primitively constant. Now the charge and close that is going to be exactly our net charge that we are looking for. So if I multiply both sides of our equation by our electric Perma titty constant, we get that. Our net charge is equal to the electric flux times the electric purgative itty constant. So let's go ahead and plug in all of our numbers here we have that. The net charge is equal to 5.26 times to the sixth times 8. times 10 to the negative 12. Which when you plug into your calculator, you get 4.65 times 10 to the third columns corresponding to our answer choice of D. Thank you all so much for watching. Hope this video helped. We will see you all in the next one

Some planetary scientists have suggested that the planet Mars has an electric field somewhat similar to that of the earth, producing a net electric flux of −3.63×1016 N·m2/C at the planet's surface. Calculate: (a) the total electric charge on the planet;

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