Owen Duffy wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
and the reflections from a complimentary impedance discontinuity

What is a "complimentary impedance discontinuity", or even a
"complementary impedance discontinuity" if you meant that?

Sorry about the misspelling. I was trying to us the word
"complement" in the sense of "A numerical derived from a
given numeral by a specified subtraction rule. Often used
to represent the negative of the number represented by the
given numeral." Definition from "The IEEE Dictionary".

For instance, the reflection coefficient at the second impedance
discontinuity can be considered to be the complement of the
reflection coefficient at the first impedance discontinuity.

--------Z01---x---Z02---y---Z01-----------

The physical reflection coefficient at point 'x' would be
(Z02-Z01)/(Z01+Z02). The physical reflection coefficient at point
'y' would be (Z01-Z02)/(Z01+Z02). Mathematically, those two
reflection coefficients can be considered to be complements of
each other.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp