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{"title":"Magnetic flux through a closed surface","description":"Wrong","type":"incorrect","color":"#99CCFF","code":"[{\"shape\":\"poly\",\"coords\":\"82,133\"},{\"shape\":\"rect\",\"coords\":\"10,16,12,16\"},{\"shape\":\"poly\",\"coords\":\"144,22\"},{\"shape\":\"rect\",\"coords\":\"1,6,44,54\"}]"}{"title":"There is zero magnetic flux through any closed surface, no matter what the size or shape of the surface or what it contains.","description":"Correct!","type":"correct","color":"#008000","code":"[{\"shape\":\"rect\",\"coords\":\"134,6,165,53\"}]"}
Review
In addition to Gauss’s law for the electric field, there is Gauss’s law for the magnetic field. This states that for any closed Gaussian surface, there is zero net flux of the magnetic field \(\vec{B}\) through that surface: