On Mar 6, 6:10 am, Keith Dysart wrote:

So while analyzing average power dissipations suggests that the
energy from the reflected wave is dissipated in the source resistor,
analysis of the instantaneous power shows that it is not.

Since it's a linear system, no matter where the "reflected" wave is
coming from (that is, whether it's actually a reflection, or from some
completely separate source which may or may not be on the same
frequency), I believe until someone shows me differently and proves
the multitude of analyses showing it to be so, that the reflection
coefficient going from the line back into the linear source really
does work, and it works at every instant in time.

The paragraph quoted above, then, begs the question: if not in the
resistor, where? The answer should be perfectly clear.

Cheers,
Tom