Electromagnetic Transmission Lines: Signal Propagation and Reflections Step by Step
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Finite Travel Time
Signal Speed Is Not Instant
Longer Line Delays the Same Step
Round-Trip Echo Takes Two Trips
Launching Into a Line
Characteristic Impedance Sets Launched Current
Launch Power Comes From Voltage Times Current
Matched Load Has No Reflected Step
Reflections at Boundaries
Higher Load Reflects a Positive Step
Lower Load Reflects a Negative Step
Echo Polarity Reveals the Boundary
Matched Termination Erases the Echo
Bounce Ledgers and Termination Audit
Successive Bounces Shrink by Boundary Coefficients
Load Voltage Is the Sum of Visible Arrivals
Transmission-Line Audit Cites Every Source
Relation Cross-Scans
Delay Length-Speed Cross-Scan
Launch Current-Power Cross-Scan
Reflection Boundary Cross-Scan
Bounce Partial-Sum Cross-Scan
Echo and Source Boundary Depth Scans
Echo Launch-Time Three-Row Scan
Echo One-Way Delay Three-Row Scan
Source Reflection Load Total Three-Row Scan
Line Impedance Reflection Three-Row Scan