CHAPTER 2 - Conveying Power at Radio Frequency
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Figure 2.5-43 The current loops around and flows through the penultimate capacitor so as to discharge it
This process of discharge continues down the line so that a current of 2I amps may be sustained.
This also results in the total voltage along the line progressively flattening down to zero (Figure
2.5-44 and Figure 2.5-45).
Figure 2.5-44 The process of discharge continues to sustain a current equal to 2I and take the voltage down to zero
Figure 2.5-45 The process of discharge continues to sustain a current equal to 2I and take the voltage down to zero
Eventually the generator sees a voltage equal to zero volts, which is what one would expect
from a short circuit, and a current equal to twice the initial incident current (Figure 2.5-46). This
current may be thought of as the superposition of two currents, an incident and a reflected one,
equal in amplitude and polarity.
2I
E/2
E
E/2
E/2 0
E/2
E
2I
E/2
0
0
E
E/2
2I
0
0 0
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