polarization

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>]

I said:

> >  The student must accept his instructor's initial premise that the
> > incident microwave radiation has the polarization he alleges.
> > It is all a bit of a swindle, you see, so I say that one should
> > swindle on the side of the angels.....

and Brian Whatcott replied:

> I expect that given a waveguide of the usual rectangular form,
> and given that one accepts that the emergent e field is parallel
>  to its short side for the usual propagation mode, then one
> would see that the e field is normal to the pickets of a
> cake-tray polarizer?

That is my point. The student will only be able to accept that as
received knowledge. He won't be sophisticated about plumbing.

Leigh