Question

Is dipole moment a scalar or vector?

Answer 1

Explanation:

1. Electric dipole moment: The amount of electric dipole moment is used to gauge an electric dipole's strength. Its magnitude is determined by multiplying the magnitude of the two charges by the distance between them.
2. Electric dipole moment: $p=qxd$
3. The vector quantity known as electric dipole moment is written as $\overrightarrow{p}=q\times \overrightarrow{d}$.

Here, $P$ denotes the dipole moment, $q$ denotes charge, and $\overrightarrow{d}$ denotes the separation between negative and positive charges as well as their direction.

Hence, the dipole moment is a vector quantity.