[SI-LIST] Re: capacitor impedance in time domain

  • From: Steve Weir <weirsi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Alan Hilton-Nickel <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:05:40 -0800

Alan, maybe I misread Aprad's posts but it looked to me like he was 
treating the capacitor as a very high impedance.  He referred to a current 
source on the leading and trailing edges, and a discontinuity on the flats.

Regards,


Steve
At 03:59 PM 1/28/2005 -0800, Alan Hilton-Nickel wrote:
>Steve Weir wrote:
>
>>The problem with viewing this as an RC is the stored energy in the line.
>
>Yes, I'll agree with that. I wasn't intending to oversimplify, just to 
>point wout we had a TL with a cap at the end, so the cap termination must 
>have the exponential response which we include in the TL analysis. That 
>was Arpad's point as well.
>
>Alan
>

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