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AP Physics C: E&M
8.6 Gauss’s Law
8.5 Electric Flux
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A three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system with axes labeled x, y, and z. The horizontal axis extending to the right is x, the vertical axis extending upward is z, and the axis extending forward and to the left is y. A cube with edge length L is positioned with its edges parallel to the three axes. The front-left-bottom corner of the cube is at position x = d along the x-axis, and its opposite face along x is at position x = d + L. Four horizontal arrows pointing in the positive x-direction represent the electric field: two shorter horizontal arrows of equal length penetrate the face at x = d, and two longer horizontal arrows of equal length emerge from the face at x = d + L. The label \vec{E} appears above the longer arrows. Tick marks on the x-axis are labeled d and d + L. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
A cube of edge length \(L\) positioned in a non-uniform electric field \(\vec{E} = \alpha x\,\hat{i}\).
A closed cubic surface with edges of length \(L\) is situated in a region containing a non-uniform electric field given by \(\vec{E} = \alpha x\,\hat{i}\), where \(\alpha\) is a positive constant. The cube has two faces perpendicular to the \(x\)-axis located in the planes \(x = d\) and \(x = d + L\) (where \(d > 0\)), while its other four faces are parallel to the \(x\)-axis and bounded by \(0 \le y \le L\) and \(0 \le z \le L\). Taking into account the electric flux through each of the six faces of the cube, what is the net electric charge \(Q_{\text{enc}}\) enclosed by the surface?

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