On Apr 20, 12:23 am, Cecil Moore wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:
I think you've put your finger right on Cecil's conceptual problem.

Your conceptual problem is obviously that you don't
understand the difference between a DC circuit problem
and an RF distributed network problem.

Can you get DC current to flow in opposite directions
around a closed loop? Can you get RF current to flow
in opposite directions around a closed loop.

However when you draw the distributed elements, you find
there are many loops (an infinite number?) and each loop
behaves exactly as it does for those in a circuit built of
lumped elements. There is no magic at all. The same
theories work, though the calculus is a bit more tedious.

So the RF is not flowing in opposite directions around the
loop. You just have not drawn the appropriate loops.

....Keith