Abstract: Several exercises are reviewed for introducing the essential elements of transmission lines to students of introductory electricity and magnetism. A simple circuit is presented for generating ~= (approximately-equal-to) 100 ns pulses suitable for demonstrating reflection and superposition of pulses on long coax cable using an inexpensive oscilloscope.

(Copyright) 1995 American Association of Physics Teachers.
Rct Date:(Received 22 August 1994; accepted 29 September 1994)
PACS:Type: E-Experimental. Year: 95. Class nos. 01.50.Pa; 84.40.Rq
Country:US-United States
Keywords:Number: 08. COAXIAL CABLES; PULSE CIRCUITS; PULSE TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; OSCILLOGRAPHS; CAPACITANCE; INDUCTANCE