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Grade 12Electrostatics

what is the difference between permeability and permitivity

Profile image of Harleen Kour Bali
13 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Pranjal Goel
ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer13 Years ago

Permittivity is concerned with electric fields and is the "ability of a material to polarize in response to the (electric) field", while permeability is concerned with magnetic fields and is "the degree of magnetization of a material in response to a magnetic field"

Permittivity of free space: E0= 8.8541878176E-12 F/m
Permeability of free space: u0= 4(pi)E-7 H/m

Interestingly: c=1/ sqrt(E0u0), where c is the speed of light.

Profile image of saravanan ramesh
ApprovedApproved Tutor Answer13 Years ago

Permittivity is concerned with electric fields and is the "ability of a material to polarize in response to the (electric) field", while permeability is concerned with magnetic fields and is "the degree of magnetization of a material in response to a magnetic field" 


Profile image of Harleen Kour Bali
13 Years ago

thqqq...... for clearing my doubt !!