Paper 4, Section II, C
Part II, 2011
Suppose that there is a distribution of electric charge given by the charge density . Develop the multipole expansion, up to quadrupole terms, for the electrostatic potential and define the dipole and quadrupole moments of the charge distribution.
A tetrahedron has a vertex at where there is a point charge of strength . At each of the other vertices located at and there is a point charge of strength .
What is the dipole moment of this charge distribution?
What is the quadrupole moment?