Reflections from terminations for Transmission Line Laboratory
(last revised March 1, 2003)
times in s, resistance in ohms, capacitance in farads, inductance
in henries, signal in volts
impedance of cable
incident pulse height
incident pulse width
total down and back time is 300 ns, cable delay is 150 ns
cable delay
initial pulse
F
is Heaviside step function. Incident pulse has leading and trailing
edges.
graphing parameters
define nanoseconds
Plot incident pulse
pure capacitance as termination
capacitance
time
constant
pure inductance as termination