Rayleigh Scattering by Richard Fitzpatrick
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Section 9.6 of Classical Electromagnetism by Richard Fitzpatrick. Equations (1289)–(1293) derive the bound-charge Rayleigh limit and frequency scaling. The sphere polarizability and needle-orientation calculations in the solutions are separate derivations.
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