Answer to Question #163615 in Electricity and Magnetism for Sneha

Question

What is electric dipole moment

Answer 1

An electric dipole is a pair of electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign separated by the small distance. Therefore, the electric dipole moment is a measure of the separation of these charges within a system. The SI units for electric dipole moment are coulomb-meter. It can be written mathematically as follows:

$$p=qd,$$

here, $p$ is the electric dipole moment, $q$ is the magnitude of the charge, $d$ is the separation distance between the charges.