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Old January 10th 08, 07:25 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Jim Kelley Jim Kelley is offline
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Default Standing morphing to travelling waves, and other stupid notions



Cecil Moore wrote:

An RF standing wave does not behave like an EM wave
nor does it meet the definition of an EM wave which can be represented
by a Poynting vector. The Poynting vector for an RF standing wave has
a magnitude of zero and no direction.


So much for the Poynting vector of a position envelope. What are your
thoughts regarding the Poynting vector for a time varying envelope of
an electromagnetic wave? :-)

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