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I'd like to thank everyone who replied to this thread. I apologize for not replying sooner, finals and the end of the semester got the better of me. All of your explanations have been very helpful. I still find the phenomena somewhat difficult to conceptualize, but it could be in part that I am...

In my electromagnetic engineering class we were talking about Hertzian dipole antennas with an oscillating current source (transmission line) driving the antenna. As part of the description of the behavior as the two ends of the antenna have opposite charges an electric field is created from...