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Soumen Goswami (2446)

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First of all understand that the point charge is placed symmetrically wrt to all the six faces of the cube. Now, flux is related to no of lines of electric field cutting a surface. As the point charge is placed at the center of the cube, the no of lines crossing each face must be same, which means that the fulx must be same.
Suppose the flux through each face is

By Gauss's Law
6

= q/

= q/6

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