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Old July 7th 10, 08:55 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Szczepan Bialek Szczepan Bialek is offline
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Default what happens to reflected energy ?


"lu6etj" wrote
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D: Kraus says: "a charge moving at uniform velocity

along a curved or bent wire it is accelerated and radiates".
The clue was in words "straight wire" , he says: "Electric charge
moving with uniform velocity along a straight wire does not radiate".

This principle is used today to produce the light in the free electron
laser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FEL_principle.png
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