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what happens to reflected energy ?
On Jun 7, 5:00*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 6, 1:01*pm, K1TTT wrote: as in the other thread, what is the mechanism of that 'interaction' between waves? *i contend there can be no 'interaction' between forward and reflected waves if the device is linear. David, you are preaching to the choir. I explained before that there is NO interaction between forward and reflected waves because they are traveling in different directions. The only time that coherent, collimated waves can interact is when they are traveling in the same direction in a transmission line. Keith's argument requires that forward waves and reflected waves interact. I say they cannot interact in a constant Z0 environment. You say they cannot interact. We are on the same side of this argument. The mechanism of the interaction of two coherent, collimated waves traveling in the same direction is that the superposition process is irreversible. The source photons and the reflected photons are indistinguishable. -- 73, Cecil, w5dxp.com This is what YOU said: What happens to the 50 joules/second of reflected energy depends upon the phasing between the source wave and the reflected wave at the source impedance. What most amateurs don't understand is there are two mechanisms that can redistribute reflected energy back toward the antenna. Those mechanisms are a re-reflection based on the physical reflection coefficient (what RF engineers understand) and wave interaction resulting in constructive/destructive interference (what most RF engineers don't seem to understand) because, unlike optical physicists, have not been forced to follow the energy flow. There is no interaction between the waves, they may be superimposed, and maybe their photons are indistinguishable, but there is no 'interaction'. interaction implies that one wave affects the other, energy is transferred or fields are affected, such things occur in non- linear media, but not in linear ones. |
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