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Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Dr. Slick wrote: And how do you explain the rho 1 for a passive network? Shouldn't be possible. And neither should a negative SWR. This seems to me to be somewhat akin to the fact that s11 and rho can have different values at an impedance discontinuity where a 'third power' is commonplace. Roy's 'third power' at the load appears to be analogous to a re-reflection of some sort as the inductive load tries and fails to dump energy back into the Z0=68-j39 transmission line. A re-reflection is another component of forward power. The ratio of reflected Poynting vector to forward Poynting vector is |rho|^2. In Roy's example, the total average Poynting vector points toward the load indicating that (Pz+ - Pz-) 0. That means |rho|^2 cannot be greater than 1.0. Cecil, The ratio Pref/Pfwd is directly related to the ratio [rho]. Consider that after the absolute value brackets, the phase information is gone. But since we are going to a ratio of average (RMS) values OR peak values of power, it doesn't matter. In other words, if you use V**2/R, the "V" can be either peak or RMS, it doesn't matter, because it is a ratio. And of course, the "R" doesn't matter either. And of course, the phase information is gone with the absolute value brackets. If you agree that the Pref/Pfwd ratio cannot be greater than 1 for a passive network, then neither can the [Vref/Vfwd]= rho be greater than 1 either. Some people wanna rewrite some books here. Slick |
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Dr. Slick wrote:
If you agree that the Pref/Pfwd ratio cannot be greater than 1 for a passive network, then neither can the [Vref/Vfwd]= rho be greater than 1 either. But apparently rho=(Z2-Z1)/(Z2+Z1) can be greater than unity. So those are not the same reflection coefficients. A physical rho and an image rho are quite often different values. s11 is a physical rho. Vref/Vfwd is an image rho. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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