Re: [Phys-L] More on Gravity Waves

[Bernard Cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org>]

> On 2016, Apr 25, , at 12:19, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:
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> As an additional minor consideration, there are differences in
> polarization:
> a) The reactive field has a longitudinal component.
> b) The radiative field is purely transverse.


Somewhere in my dim memory from ca 1970, I read that a pencil (E-M) incident non-normally into a dissipative dielectric will have a longitudinal component.  


bc,  bad memory?


or perhaps a reactive field is created?