Question

Debye is the unit of

• A. electric flux
• B. electric dipole moment
• C. electric potential
• D. electric field intensity

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

electric dipole moment

Answer 2

The debye (symbol: D) is a CGS unit (a non-SI metric unit) of electric dipole moment named in honour of the physicist Peter J. W. Debye. It is defined as $1 \times 10^{-18}$ statcoulomb-centimetre.