10 Questions
What is the origin of the word 'physics'?
Latin borrowing of Greek term φύσις (phúsis 'origin, nature, property')
What directly led to the development of television, computers, and nuclear weapons?
Advances in electromagnetism, solid-state physics, and nuclear physics
Which field inspired the development of calculus?
Advances in mechanics
What led to the development of industrialization?
Advances in thermodynamics
Which ancient civilizations are mentioned as early practitioners of natural sciences?
Sumerians and ancient Egyptians
What is the SI unit of capacitance?
Farad (F)
What is self capacitance?
The capacitance exhibited by an electrically charged object with respect to ground
What is mutual capacitance?
The capacitance measured between two components
What is the function of capacitance between two conductors dependent on?
Geometry, opposing surface area, distance, and permittivity of dielectric material
What happens to the permittivity and capacitance for many dielectric materials?
$\text{Permittivity and capacitance are independent of potential difference and total charge}$
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