Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each quantity to what it represents.
- Polarisation
- Displacement field
- Susceptibility
- Relative permittivity
- How strongly the medium polarises per unit field
- Lets Gauss’s law be applied to free charge alone
- Dipole moment per unit volume
- The factor by which the field is weakened
Hints
- Two are fields and two are material response coefficients.
- One coefficient is the other plus one.
Show the answer
- Polarisation → Dipole moment per unit volume
- Displacement field → Lets Gauss’s law be applied to free charge alone
- Susceptibility → How strongly the medium polarises per unit field
- Relative permittivity → The factor by which the field is weakened
Why
measures the aligned dipoles, hides them from Gauss’s law, sets how readily they align, and is the resulting field reduction.
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