Gene Fuller wrote:
You have argued with me many times that my preference of analyzing
standing waves is insufficient; that there is more information contained
in the two component traveling waves than in the standing wave.
Superposition says that is not correct, but I don't suppose you will
accept that.

No, you have it wrong. All I have ever done is defend
my method of analyzing forward and reflected waves
separately and then superposing while you have done
your best to discredit that approach. You have said it
is an invalid approach and tried to prove it by
asserting that standings waves are completely different
from traveling waves because the phase has disappeared
and is gone forever. Your exact words:

Phase is gone. Kaput. Vanished. Cannot be recovered. Never to be
seen again.

You cannot have it both ways, Gene. If, as you say,
phase disappears from standing waves, then they are
quite different from traveling waves (which they are).

In a standing wave, the phase is constant.
In a traveling wave the phase is changing.

In a standing wave, the amplitude varies.
In a traveling wave the amplitude is constant.

In a lot of ways, standing waves and traveling
waves are opposites.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com