Lecture 36 Transmission

Line Theory

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The input impedance Zin has maxima and minima that occur, respectively, at
the maxima and minima of the voltage and current standing wave. It can also
be shown that
As a way of demonstrating these concepts, consider a lossless line with

characteristic = 50 U. For the sake of simplicity, we assume that the

impedance of Zo
line is terminated
in a pure resistive load ZL = 100 0 and the voltage at the load is 100 V
(rms).
Voltage and current wave patterns on a lossless line terminated by a resistive load
The average input power at a distance l from the load
where

is the input or
Pt
transmitted power and the negative sign is due to the negative goingwave since we

take the reference direction as that of the voltage/current traveling

toward the right.

We now consider special cases

 Zin is a pure reactance, which could be capacitive
or inductive depending on the value of l
ZL= Z0