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August 30th 03, 06:11 PM
W5DXP
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W5DXP wrote:
Jim Kelley wrote:
Nodes and zero crossings aren't necessarily the same thing.
They are for standing waves on lossless unterminated lines,
by definition.
I think not. Standing waves are spatial. At certain points
on the line the (NET) voltage is always zero: nodes.
For the infinite number of times a snapshot of the voltage is
not zero, the node *IS* a zero-crossing point. That is more than
obvious from the JAVA applets on this web page.
http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos/s....html#standing
In an ideal line terminated by Zo, ...
That configuration is not covered by my statement above which
applies only to standing waves on lossless unterminated lines.
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