Question: A pacemaker is an implanted electrical device that is used to regulate the heartbeat. The pacemaker of a particular patient is about to work and

A pacemaker is an implanted electrical device that is used to regulate the heartbeat. The pacemaker of a particular patient is about to work and has built up charge to administer an electric shock to the heart. Assume that while the rest of the patient's body is electrically neutral, the pacemaker has a charge build up of +3.235 uC. You may assume that charge is localized to a small point. Consider the patient's skin to be a Gaussian surface. What is the total electrical flux through the patient? (Answer in units of N * m^2 / C).

There are 1 x 10^6 uC in each coulomb. The vacuum permittivity (e0) is 8.85419 x 10^-12 C^2/N * m^2

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