John Popelish wrote:
I said the phase was was fixed, not zero, at a given position.

So the phase is NOT the same between the standing waves and the
traveling waves proving that standing waves are different from
traveling waves. Like I said, we seem to be going in circles.

I agreed that the pattern of amplitude and phase is different along a
line for traveling and standing waves.

Then why are you arguing with me about it. That's what I also
believe. Your argument seems to be with the people who say,
"current is current".

You keep claiming that there is something fundamentally different about
the kind of phasor describing a single point (rotating versus non
rotating), depending on whether the phasor is describing a point on a
standing or traveling wave. That is where we disagree.

Yes, 45 degrees is fundamentally different from zero, is it not?
Let's see, the percentage difference is (45-0)/0.

Let's cut to the bottom line. You seem to believe that standing wave
current is identical to traveling wave current.

At a point, it certainly can be.

No it isn't. It is the lack of knowledge that causes one to assume
that. More knowledge is all it takes to tell the difference. If
the current is everywhere in phase with the source current, it is
standing wave current. If the current is only in phase with the
source current every 360 degrees, it is traveling wave current.

If you have any corrections to any of this, please quote enough of what
you what you are correcting for the context to be clear, and have at
it. I want to get this right.

We seem to be in basic agreement that traveling wave current is not
identical to standing wave current so what are we arguing about?
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