Hi guys does anybody know in Transmission lines what happens when you send a pulse into a transmission line terminated with a Capacitor load, or a Resistor load?
Thanks
For short time intervalls, the TL output acts like a resistor equal to its impedance, the waveform at the capacitor shows low-pass behaviour. Because of impedance mismatching, part of the pulse is reflected.
With resistive load, you get a real valued reflection coefficient r = (R-ZL)/(R+ZL) and respective behaviour, as shown in any electronics text book. With R=ZL, the pulse is completely absorbed.