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Section 5.2: History of the retarded dipole fields<br />

A brief historical review is given of the work undertaken by previous authors<br />

to obtain the retarded dipole fields. The author’s motivation, and rôle in the<br />

saga, are noted.<br />

Section 5.3: The Liénard–Wiechert fields<br />

A review is provided of the derivation of the standard Liénard–Wiechert<br />

electromagnetic fields generated by a point charge in arbitrary motion. Concepts,<br />

techniques and notation to be generalised in the next section to the<br />

case of dipole moments are emphasised.<br />

Section 5.4: The retarded dipole fields<br />

The retarded fields from a point particle carrying electric and magnetic dipole<br />

moments are derived. The manifestly-covariant results are reëxpressed in<br />

explicit, non-covariant notation, using several new convenient quantities introduced<br />

by the author; the results are surprisingly simple.<br />

Section 5.5: The static fields<br />

The static fields generated by a spherical body of uniform charge and polarisation<br />

density are reviewed, with two aspects particularly emphasised:<br />

the behaviour of the fields in the vicinity of the source volume; and the mechanical<br />

self-energy, mechanical self-momentum and mechanical self-angular<br />

momentum contained within the fields.<br />

The extra Maxwell contribution to the point magnetic dipole field is also<br />

obtained, in manifestly-covariant form, for arbitrary relativistic motion of<br />

the dipole.<br />

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