Cecil Moore wrote:
Jim Kelley wrote:

Actually I agree, but it's all from ordinary reflections, rather than
from backscattered interference or anything else from the 'square root
of negative one' axis.


Jim, the reflected energy and momentum changes direction.
Walter Maxwell calls it a virtual short or open with a
virtual reflection coefficient of 1.0. I agree with "Optics",
by Hecht, that it is total destructive interference in the
source direction accompanied by total constructive interference
in the load direction. What do you call it? What reflection
coefficient does your reflected wave see? Please give it a
name.

I agree with Optics by Hecht too, Cecil. I just don't always agree
with what you think the words in Optics by Hecht mean.

73, Jim AC6XG