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Introduction

A study of the emission and scattering of electromagnetic radiation necessarily involves solving the vector wave equation. It turns out that the solutions of this equation in free space can be conveniently expressed as an expansion in orthogonal spherical waves. Let us examine this expansion, which is known as the multipole expansion.



Richard Fitzpatrick 2014-06-27