On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:04:50 GMT, Cecil Moore wrote:

Richard Harrison wrote:

Owen Duffy wrote:
"Richard, You seem to be dealing with reflection coefficient as a real
number when in fact it is a complex number."

I plead guilty.

OTOH, some text I have in my library treats 'rho' as a magnitude
and 'gamma' as the complex reflection coefficient.

Irespective of the symbol that may be used, and there are
unfortunately many schemes, the reflection coefficient is a complex
quantity.

Owen
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