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RE: Motion / Moment

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Posted by pmb on April 7, 2000 12:25:41 UTC

Sure. An electric dipole is defined as two charges located seperated by a given distance. If I have two masses seperated by a given distance one might call that a dipole to. I thought that is what the other person meant by dipole motion - ie two masses moving around each other. However there is a quantity called the "dipole moment." For two electric charges this is non-zero. For two masses this is zero.

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