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electric multipole

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electric multipole [i¦lek·trik ′məl·tə‚pōl]
(electromagnetism)
One of a series of types of static or oscillating charge distributions; the multipole of order 1 is a point charge or a spherically symmetric distribution, and the electric and magnetic fields produced by an electric multipole of order 2nare equivalent to those of two electric multipoles of order 2n-1of equal strengths, but opposite sign, separated from each other by a short distance.
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Laplace's equations in dimensions higher than 3 correspond to electric multipole fields of order 1, where 1 = n - 3.
Electrostatics in n dimensions with illustrative examples by Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
 
 
 
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