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 > The weirsp@xxxxxxxxxx e-mail address will terminate March 31, 2005. Please update your address book with weirsi@xxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu