Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:
Oops, I am afraid I must retract my previous congratulatory progress
report. You are obviously still confusing phasors with field vectors.
Until you get that terrible misconception sorted out, there is no hope
for further progress.

Draw a plane through which a plane EM wave is passing
normal to the plane. Now please explain exactly why
the E-field and H-field cannot be represented by
phasors.

I posted this separately to keep from confusing simple
issues with complex issues. Get it? Complex issues? :-)

Cecil,

The phasor has nothing to do with spatial direction of the field vector.
It has everything to do with the amplitude and the (wt-kx) term in the
wave equation. (The 'x' is simply a distance measure in the propagation
direction. It does not say anything about the field vector directions,
since the fields are transverse to the propagation direction.)

This is really, really basic E&M stuff. If you still disagree, then you
are own your own.

73,
Gene
W4SZ