Electric Polarization

 “Electric Polarization”

When a dielectric substance is placed between two plates with an applied electric field. The electric field distorts the negatively charged particles towards the positive plate and the positive charge particles towards the negative plate. The slight separation of charge makes one side of the atom somewhat positive and the opposite side somewhat negative. This phenomenon is known as electric polarization.

Electric Dipole:

                        “The system in which two charges of equal magnitude but of opposite sign separated by the distance d, are present in termed as a dipole.”

                        Electric Dipole moment is represented by P, Which is equal to the product of the charge Q present in the dipole and the distance d between the two charges of the dipole.

                                                P = Qd

Where P is a vector quantity.