My challenge to you was rhetorical. Based on past experience, I had no
real expectation that you'd be able to actually calculate a current.

Our educations differ a great deal. Mine enabled me to give a numerical
prediction, which as anyone who has read my earlier postings, is 1.
Yours has evidently not prepared you to meet this onerous challenge.

Does anyone else feel up to the task of calculating the currents in a
simple circuit? It used to be that you'd have to be able to do this to
get a first phone license, or probably an amateur extra. Now, it appears
that even American engineering education isn't always up to the task.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Cecil Moore wrote:
. . .
Balanis would be surprised to know that you consider the material that
he teaches in his classes at ASU to be pseudo-analysis. Some of the
stuff I have posted is in Balanis' book, _Antenna_Theory_ which you
haven't read. In particular, he says: "Standing wave antennas, such
as the dipole, can be analyzed as traveling wave antennas with waves
propagating in opposite directions (forwards and backwards) as represented
by traveling wave currents If and Ib in Figure 10.1(a)."
. . .