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In article <1992Nov19.015926.4572@nmsu.edu>, sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA) writes:
> 
> Mark Joseph Delano <md4y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> >   There was a standing wave in my orange juice this morning.
> >
> >   I counted the nodes.
> 
> thats what you get for drinking out of waveguides, dielectric
> properties of orange juice notwithstanding . . .
> 
> speaking of waveguide, what would happen if you made a moebius
> waveguide and excited a standing wave in it?

I presume you mean a Klein bottle waveguide. A waveguide in the
shape of a Moebius strip would be topologically equivalent to a
toroidal cavity, and would resonate in pretty much the same way.

There are practical difficulties associated with building a WG
in the shape of a Klein bottle.

jkc (count the nodes on *this*...)