Capacitance and Dielectrics

By Dr. Eugene Patronis

In this article, Dr Eugene Patronis give an in-depth study on Capacitance and Dielectrics.

George Gamow was a famous nuclear physicist and cosmologist who once wrote an entertaining and humorous series of books for the layman in which many of the mysteries of modern science were explained in simple terms. In one of these books Professor Gamow introduced a magical character termed a Maxwellian Demon who had the ability to perform everyday chores on an atomic scale. We will make use of such a character at times in this article while affectionately referring to him as Max. Max is quite industrious and has brought about the four situations depicted in Fig. 1.

Capacitance and Dielectrics