Roy Lewallen wrote:
Jim Kelley wrote:


Hi Roy -

It's certainly true that a moving charge generates a magnetic field,
so perhaps I'm reading it wrong. But it appears to me that Mr. Bailey
is arguing here that an electron cannot be compelled to move simply by
the application of an electric field. Do you think that is what he is
saying? Do you agree?


No, I don't believe he's saying that. He says,

The small electric vector acts on the internal electrons of
the conductor and impresses a direction force, tending to drive the
electrons along the skin of the conductor in the direction of the
electric vector. . .

Yes. But then he goes on to say,

How, then, is the electric vector from the electromagnetic wave going to put these electrons in motion?

That's what I was referring to. Do you understand why he would pose
this question if he believed he had already given the answer in the
paragraph you quoted? He shoulda quit while he was ahead maybe? ;-)

Thanks,

Jim Kelley, AC6XG