Fields of a time-dependent electric dipole

ID: fields-of-a-time-dependent-electric-dipole

With all electric dipole moments and time derivatives evaluated at , the retarded potentials of a point electric dipole give, for ,
For a short verification, apply and when computing and . This produces the displayed , and terms. The radiation electric field is transverse and obeys . The vector triple product then gives the leading Poynting vector , displaying the angular distribution of electric dipole radiation.

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