Owen Duffy wrote:
Your analysis of energy waves or power waves doesn't give you the
information to see that level of detail.

Whatever level of detail one chooses, the energy
in the forward waves plus the energy in the reflected
waves will equal the total energy in the transmission
line which will always be the energy sourced and not
delivered to the load (in a lossless system). This
will be true right down to the last photon.

Unless someone can prove that EM energy is
transformed into some other form of energy for
storage in the transmission line and then transformed
back to EM energy when the transmission line is
emptied, the nature of EM energy and the conservation
of energy principle dictate what happens. EM (photonic)
wave energy cannot move at less than the speed of
light (modified by VF).
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com