
Conductance and conductivity - Physics Stack Exchange
Mar 14, 2015 · What is the relationship between conductance and conductivity? Is there any formula that can explain their relationship?
Why does electrolytic conductance increase with dilution?
May 2, 2022 · Both conductance and conductivity decrease with dilution. Both molar conductivity and ion mobility increase with dilution. Note that the former are concave functions and have at …
Why is conductivity defined as the inverse of resistivity?
Oct 30, 2020 · Using conductance and conductivity can be useful when trying to calculate the total resistance of a material whose resistivity varies across its geometry. See this question and this …
In metals, the conductivity decreases with increasing temperature?
Jun 28, 2020 · In a metal, the number of charge carriers is almost unaffected by temperature. There is an enormous number of free electrons per unit volume (compared to a semiconductor …
What is Conductance? - Physics Stack Exchange
What is conductance? I am being said that conductance is inverse of resistance?I do know that resistance is the opposition to the flow of current but do not get conductance?
Explaining how a magnetic field affects currents in a conductor, in …
Feb 7, 2021 · In a normal conductor with very, very high conductance, a penetrating electric field accelerates the charges, but the self EMF of the electrons is almost enough to cancel all of the …
How to estimate thermal conductivity of a sample?
Aug 12, 2024 · There is a rectangular sample whose emissivity is known, and I want to estimate its thermal conductivity. A heater with a known heat flux is applied to one end of the sample …
Why is the conductance of an insulator not $0$?
Sep 26, 2024 · It only takes a few electrons to get a very little current to flow - look at the specific resistance values and see that they vary across many orders of magnitude. Also consider that …
Concept of Surface (Sheet) Resistance - Physics Stack Exchange
Dec 15, 2023 · Now we define sheet conductance $\sigma_s$ as the integral on the right hand side, so that we can write $$ J_s = \sigma_s\mathcal E$$ in analogy with the usual "3D" …
What is magnetic conductivity? - Physics Stack Exchange
Magnetic conductivity is the inverse of magnetic reluctance and resembles the electrical quantity conductance. Here is a pretty picture of the analogy of electrical and magnetic circuits. By the …