The subprime mortgage crisis was caused by hedge funds, banks, and insurance companies. The first two created mortgage-backed securities. The insurance companies covered them with credit default swaps. Demand for mortgages led to an asset bubble in housing.
The field of dielectrics is a branch of physics that covers how insulating materials separate different electrical charges in a capacitor. A capacitor is a device with two metal plates of opposite charges, with a dielectric insulating material in between the keeps the charges separate.
The dielectric constant does not have units or dimensions because it expresses the ratio of the permittivity of a substance to that of free space or a vacuum. The dielectric constant is a property of electrical insulators, and the symbol for the dielectric constant is the Greek letter kappa. Keep Learning.