Exercise 3.2-1 Maximum Polarization of Water

Looking into some standard reference book with numbers, e.g. the "CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics", you find that the structure of a water molecule and its dipole moment is

µ_water = 1,87 · 10^{– 18} e.s.u..

1. How large would the dielectric constant of water be if all water dipoles are completely oriented into the field direction? Or, if you realize right away that this question does'nt make much sense:

1a. How large would the polaization of water be if all water dipoles are completely oriented into the field direction?

And what, for gods sake, are e.s.u.?

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3.2.4 Orientation Polarization

Solution to 3.2-1