Multipole Theory in Electromagnetism - Raab, Roger E. (, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) a de Lange, Owen L. (, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

Multipole theory provides a powerful way of characterizing the electromagnetic behaviour of a medium (both microscopic and macroscopic). This book describes multipole theory, and its successes and failures in applications to transmission, scattering and reflection. It also presents a modified multipole theory which avoids the failures of the standard approach.