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Section 12.9 Magnetic Flux

Just as you learned about electric flux in Section 10.11, magnetic flux can be calculated in the same way.

Definition 12.9.1. Magnetic flux.

Magnetic flux is a measure of how much magnetic field is passing perpendicularly through a surface:
\begin{equation*} \mathit{\Phi}_{B} = \iint \vec{B}\cdot d\vec{A} \end{equation*}