Even though electric flux is a scalar quantity, we consider the flux flowing out of a surface as positiveand flux entering into the surface as negative. Keeping this fact in mind answer the following question: The total electric flux through a Gaussian surface is zero when there is a charge outside the surface. Why is it so when the charge produces electic field?

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1.	Even though electric flux is a scalar quantity, we consider the flux flowing out of a surface as positiveand flux entering into the surface as negative. Keeping this fact in mind answer the following question: The total electric flux through a Gaussian surface is zero when there is a charge outside the surface. Why is it so when the charge produces electic field?
Answer» Solution :The electric FIELD will always be along the DIRECTION away from the charge (assumed POSITIVE). But the flux will have both positive and negative values with equal magnitudes. HENCE total flux will be zero for charge outside the closed surface.