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Chapter 10 Radiation Emission and Scattering

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The radiation field. Multipole expansion. Electric dipole radiation. Magnetic dipole radiation.

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    From another viewpoint, \({\mathbf {F}_\mathrm{rad}}\) aims to describe the back-action or reaction of the self-generated EM fields on the accelerated charge.

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Macchi, A., Moruzzi, G., Pegoraro, F. (2017). Chapter 10 Radiation Emission and Scattering. In: Problems in Classical Electromagnetism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63133-2_10

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