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Figure 2.34 shows a charge array known a...

Figure 2.34 shows a charge array known as an electric quadrupole. For a point on the axis of the quadrupole, obtain the dependence of potential on r for r/a » 1, and contrast your results with that due to an electric dipole, and an electric monopole (i.e., a single charge). :

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