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TeachMeFinance.com - explain flux flux The term 'flux' as it applies to the area of nuclear science can be defined as ' A term applied to the amount of some type of particle (neutrons, alpha particles, etc.) or energy (photons, heat, etc.) crossing a unit area per unit time. The unit of flux is the number of particles, energy, etc., per square centimeter per second. '.The term 'flux' as it applies to the area of Earth observation can be defined as ' the measure of the flow of some quantity per unit area per unit time'.
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