Cube flux from a corner charge
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For a point charge exactly at a cube corner, each of the three opposite faces has outward electric flux . Reflecting the cube in its three incident faces makes a larger cube centred on the charge and proves the result by symmetry. The three incident faces have zero normal electric field away from their singular corner. Their improper integrals vanish; the total is . This boundary convention differs from moving a charge to the corner from the interior after computing a closed-surface integral.
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