KnowraMultipole expansionLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Multipole expansion, each with the reason it gives.All 13Broader topic 1Related 8Narrower topic 4Magnetic dipoleNarrower topic: The dipole is the leading nonzero term for many localized magnetic sources.Electric dipoleNarrower topic: It places the dipole among the successive terms used to describe charge distributions.Dipole approximationNarrower topic: The dipole approximation keeps a leading term from this broader expansion and discards later terms.Multipole matrix elementsNarrower topic: It organizes interactions by multipole rank, identifying the operators whose matrix elements are needed.