Keith Dysart wrote:

[...]

You did not directly answer Q1, but I take if from all the other
responses that you are saying the answer is "no, it is not
appropriate to view a transmission line as distributed capacitance
and inductance and analyze its behaviour using charge stored in
the capacitance and moving in the inducatance?"

That is not what you originally stated.

Taking this invalidates all the subsequent questions since they
are based on the premise that this kind of analysis is
appropriate.

Yes, it does.

Your explanation is easily proven false. Let's suppose it was true.

Suppose it was possible to introduce a pulse of charge onto a
conductor.

Since like charges repel each other, what keeps the pulse together?

In other words, what prevents it from destroying itself?

Then, when the first pulse meets the second, what mechanism allows
them to bounce off each other?

Then, after they have bounced off each other, what mechanism keeps
them together?

[...]

Keith

Regards,

Mike Monett