Jim Kelley wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:

Sure seems to me that dQ/dt
is negative for 1/2 half of an AC cycle.

So then according to Shriners convention, AC would be flowing away from
the load and sloshing up against the source? (hic)

Not sloshing up against the source - forced back through the
source and out the other source terminal (just like a battery).
Do you understand what happens when you reverse the polarity
of a battery in a DC circuit? Current flows in the opposite
direction. AC is somewhat similar to reversing the DC battery
polarity.

In any one AC supply wire, AC current flows away from the
load toward the source 1/2 of the time. Electrons flow back and
forth through the source. Electrons flow back and forth through
the load. The electrons near the source may never make it to the
RF load and vice versa. The driving EMF changes directions every
1/2 cycle.

It appears that the DC model adapted for AC has seduced a lot of
people into ignoring the most basic characteristics of an AC signal
which is somewhat like reversing the polarity on a DC battery.
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73, Cecil, W5DXP