Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:

It is where you diverge from Hecht (and Maxwell, and Born and Wolfe,
and Jackson) that I take issue.


I don't diverge from them, Jim. I have simply tied a few loose
ends together using logical deduction based on the laws of physics.

Yes, Richard described that process pretty accurately I thought.

So far, you have produced zero instances where I diverge from
the laws of physics.

I produced three just yesterday.

OTOH, you appear to have diverged quite often,
e.g. Maxwell's equations prove that standing waves can exist without
a rearward-traveling wave, cancelled waves don't contain energy or
momentum before they are cancelled, reflected waves are not re-
reflected by wave cancellation, there is no before and after, etc.

Please provide exact quotes. Otherwise, you're taking liberties with
the truth.

I have said all along that energy cannot be separated from the waves
containing the energy and that's why an energy analysis is possible.

Yes you have said that, whatever it means. Born and Wolf has an
interesting comment in the section on total reflection. "...the
electromagnetic field in the second medium does not disappear, only
there is no longer a flow of energy across the boundary."

73, ac6xg