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A surface completely surrounds a 1.1 × 10-6 C charge. Find the electric flux through this surface when the surface is (a) a sphere with a radius of 0.56 m, (b) a sphere with a radius of 0.18 m, and (c) a cube with edges that are 0.23 m long.
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