Tam/WB2TT wrote:

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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The 'why' is conservation of energy. If there are only two directions
available and energy was traveling in one direction and now it isn't,
it's a no-brainer to realize that it must have changed directions.

Cecil, I think a more convincing argument is that I can take a slotted line
and directly measure a standing wave on it. A wave traveling in one
direction can not do that. Or am I cunfusing things?

Tam/WB2TT

No. That's right. But the point is - how much energy is actually
moving past the probe? Cecil seems to believe that a standing wave is
more than a superposition of voltages. It would be easy to mistake that
as a superposition of energies. But one can only superpose vector
quantities.

73, Jim AC6XG