On Mar 4, 10:27*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
Keith Dysart wrote:
Thus these examples do not demonstrate that the reflected power
is dissipated in the source resistor.

There are no reflections at the source so the reflected
energy flows through the source resistor. There is no
interference to redistribute any energy. There is no
other place for the reflected energy to go.

That is the conundrum, isn't it?

And yet the analysis of instantaneous energy flows definitely
shows that the reflected energy is not the energy being dissipated
in the source resistor.

Encountering this conundrum, and not wanting to give up on
conservation of energy, is what helped me form my views on
the nature of reflected energy.

...Keith