Jim Kelley wrote:
Any confusion in this thread must be on your end.

No, you have demonstrated confusion over and over and are doing it again
in the following quote:

It began when you
claimed more current goes into one end of an inductor than comes out the
other end. That notion is utterly without merit.

Can more current go into one end of a transmission line than comes out
the other? Of course it can. Current varies up and down a transmission
line with reflections. It can be one amp at zero degrees at one point and
half an amp at 180 degrees at another point. Therefore, it is possible to
have one amp of current at the bottom of a coil and half an amp at the top
of a coil, just like it is possible in a transmission line. It is obviously
possible for one amp of instantaneous current to be flowing into a transmission
line while half an amp is flowing into the same transmission line in the opposite
direction at the other end. It appears that you don't comprehend distributed
networks at all and that's a pity.

Hint#1: in a distributed network, current can be any magnitude flowing in any
direction at different points. Exactly the same thing holds true for a coil
installed in a distributed network.

Hint#2: Current at a current loop may be one amp while 1/4WL away, the current
is always zero. How you can say that is without merit is beyond comprehension.

Yes, but it goes in only one of two directions at a time.

There are no "buts"; no exceptions to the definition of current.

Yes, and it's time that you learned that fact. There are two and only
two possible directions of current in a wire. You seem to think there
are an infinite number of directions in a wire like there are in free
space for light waves. Current in a wire is ***NOT*** a vector. Current
in a wire can have only two directions.

Saying I am "missing" something does not make it true.

Denying that you are missing something makes you omniscient only in
your own mind, not in reality.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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