Jim Kelley wrote:
Convention dictates that current
alternates in direction, and that standing waves don't. They stand.

Heh, heh, the seduction by the math model is worse than I thought.
You don't really believe that standing waves don't alternate
in direction, do you? Why do you think they call it a loop?
The standing wave current changes phase by 180 degrees every
half cycle.

There exists no "reality" in which more current "goes in" one end of a
device than "comes out" the other.

But Jim, the original argument was that the current into the
coil is the same magnitude and phase as the current out of
the coil. Do you think that is a true statement?
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73, Cecil, W5DXP