In article , Cecil Moore
wrote:

David or Jo Anne Ryeburn wrote:
Simple isn't always right. Maybe in some other universe, all fields are
conservative, but not in this one.

It might help if the language was made more understandable. Isn't the
problem in getting an absolute ground reference point at the end of
the dipole? It is possible to model a 3D antenna with a 4th dimension
ground "plane".

Nope, that's not the problem. The language I am using is standard. To
understand it, get out your multivariable calculus text, if you've kept
it, or go to the library and borrow a good one. (Shameless plug: Howard
Anton's Calculus book is a good one -- I helped debug it before
publication.) Look up "independence of path" in the section on line
integrals, and look up the related topic of "conservative vector fields".
*That's* the problem, and not anything about ground references. What Roy
is talking about is an important special case of lack of independence of
path; there are many more examples.

David

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