Transmission Definition and 753 Threads

Homework Statement My electronics&physics lecture notes contain the following side note: ___ "A ladder transmission line comprises an alternating sequence of segments of two different transmission lines both of length $l$ with characteristic impedance $Z1$ and $Z2$. If the line is constructed...

When we use pulse code modulation , it is said that the min bandwidth requirement is half the transmission rate. Transmission rate given in Bits/sec. But why?

Homework Statement A transmission line has the primary coefficients . R=2Ω/m L=8nH/m G=0.5mS/m C=0.23pF/m Determine the lines secondary coefficients Z0, α and β at a frequency of 1GHz Homework Equations included in upload The Attempt at a Solution included. I think its just a case of...

Homework Statement Figure shows a 50 Hz, high-voltage, transmission line. The relationships between the sending and receiving end voltages and currents are given by the complex ABCD equations: where 'S' stands for sending-end and 'R' stands for receiving-end (a) Given the parameter...

Single wire electrical energy transmission without a (ground ) return path... A new way of transmitting electrical energy from a floating totem pole node to almost 500 miles away end point of propagation... My totem pole electric charge supply is made of a high voltage battery and two switches...

Hello! I have a system depicted below. I need to know what is the working equation that governs the transmit and receive power of the transmitter and receiver in the diagram. The transmitted signal is a sound wave and not an RF signal, the transmission is underwater. I would like to know what is...

Hi, I have a question in definition of reflection/transmission coefficients in TE/TM modes. Let's see TE polarization case. The reflection coefficient for the magnetic field is defined as: However the transmission coefficient for the magnetic field is defined as: Now, let's see the TM mode...

I'm looking for a table of data in electronic format, for optical transmission of Si in the mid infrared at say a wavelength range of 1-15um. Something like a text file or CSV file from a public source? Also looking for Germanium - the same spectrum. Any suggestions where I could get this?

Homework Statement Q1: A power plant produces energy at a voltage of Vi = 18667 V. Before being sent along long distance power lines this electricity is sent through a transformer with 143 turns in the primary coil and 8971 turns in the secondary coil. Voltage is calculated to be...

Homework Statement A 50 Ω lossless transmission line of length 0.4λ is terminated in a load of (40 + j30) Ω. Determine, using the equation given below, the input impedance to the line.Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution Zo= 50 Zl= 50∠36.87 or 40+j30 βι= 144° (this is known due to...

Suppose I have an infinitely thin foil that absorbs 1% of incoming radiation. It therefore emits 0.5% of the incoming radiation in both directions perpendicular to the plane of the foil. That is, transmission is 0.5%. How to calculate transmission for a series of such foils? There will be a lot...

There is an LC resonant tank connected at a power source at the resonant frequency and far away from it there is Another LC circuit with the same resonant frequency connected to a multimeter. Assuming that there is no resistance and that all components are ideal the second coil will receive all...

We know that belt drives are limited in their max possible power rating and most high power/torque applications(trucks) use gear drives. I wanted to know the main factor that limits the power/torque rating of belts. Is it Frictional slip or Belt material? If the frictional slip could be...

Homework Statement A single phase transmission line has 2 parallel conductors 1.5 metres apart. The diameter of each conductor being 0.5 cm. Calculate the line to neutral capacitance for a line 80 km long[/B]Homework Equations CAN = 2(3.14)(permittivity)/Loge [D/r] This gives capacitance per...

I would simply like to know: Given a lossless transmission line with a certain characteristic impedance Z terminated in a load L. How can I go about computing the fraction of the time average incident power arriving that is dissipated in the load? Is this possible without knowing the voltage or...

The voltage value on a wire a distance away from the signal-port (where we apply the initial voltage) has a phase delay because the current takes time to travel down the wire. But how do you visualize this? First we have a voltage at the beginning, and that causes current to flow. Then a...

Homework Statement Sketch and explain the operation of the Michelson interferometer. How is the transmission of the interferometer modified if the amplitude transmission t and reflectivity r of the partially-reflecting beamsplitter are not equal? What happens to the fraction of light that is...

I am trying to understand the construction of CVT Metal belts that are made up of steel elements and some rings. I do not understand the full construction details of the belt. The most detailed information I have got ever is in this PDF on page 5...

Homework Statement There are 4 wires with diameter d arranged in a way such that they form a square shape, with the wires on the corners. The horizontal distance is kD while the vertical distance is D. Prove that the inductance per meter of each conductor is 1/2 + 2ln { [2kd√(1 + k^2)] / d }...

In considering a sound wave (in air) incident on a wall, the transmission loss (TL) is calculated by the equation TL (dB) = 10*Log (W1/W2) where W1 = sound power incident on wall W2 = sound power transmitted through wall Based on this understanding of TL, I wish to determine the extent to...

In an experiment involving electron scattering from a finite rectangular well of depth 4 eV, it is found that electrons of energy 5 eV are completely transmitted. What must be the width of the well? At what next higher energy can one expect to again observe T = 1? My Attempt: I used the...

Okay...I have a question and I am going to describe it using a scenario...Suppose there are two persons in two different but adjacent rooms. The wall in-between these rooms is 3 inches thick. There is absolutely no way for air to cross between the rooms. Now, one of the persons speaks and the...

Please bear with me, I am trying to design a shaft that will be under torsion. I do not know the diameter of the shaft and I would like to be able to calculate it by the things that I do know about the system. There's a 15HP 3 Phase motor running at 85RPM [there's a gearbox] This will be...

Homework Statement Suppose we have a potential such that $$ V = \left\{ \! \begin{aligned} 0 & \text{ if } x<0\\ \mathcal{E}x & \text{ if } x>0, x<L\\ \mathcal{E}L & \text{ if } x>L \end{aligned} \right. $$ for some electric field ##\mathcal{E}##. I'm trying to find the transmission...

Hi, does anyone know if it's possible, with a Nicolet is50 FTIR spectrometer or similar, to measure the transmittance of IR radiation through a cell filled with a liquid sample with thickness in the range of about 10 microns and accurately adjustable? The reason for doing this would be because...

Hi there, I have a question concerning the etalon (One would think that I find an answer for this in every standard physics textbook or this forum, but I actually did not): An etalon can be built from a solid block of glas (for example) with dielectric high reflectivity coatings (let's say R=99...

Hi there, If I'm using the equation P_loss = P^2 * R / V^2 to calculation the power lost on a cable, where R = p(resistivity) * L(length) / A(cross sectional area), then how long is this power loss for exactly? Thanks, Sydney

Hello there, I was wondering if the power profile of a single mode waveguide can be changed? I mean, a wave that travels through the waveguide will have a harmonic shape, right? Is it possible to get a different shape of the power profile? Thank you :)

Imagine I have a 10x10x10cm cube filled with a scintillating material (material capable of generating light when energized). Three cameras are looking at this cube from three orthogonal directions (x, y, and z). Light is generated inside the cube and is refracted as it leaves the cube and...

Hi, Regarding transmission line booster transformer topologies I'm curious as to what would happen over all the possible permutations. I refer you to the following: http://top10electrical.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/booster-transformer.html I presume that in real life the booster transformers...

I was going through MIT opencourseware https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-013-electromagnetics-and-applications-spring-2009/readings/MIT6_013S09_chap07.pdf and I didnt understand exactly why in equation 7.1.37 and 7.1.38 in page 192 the divergence of...

Hi guys, I have a question about engine torque control in automatic transmissions and dual clutch transmissions. I've seen cases where the engine torque is decreased on an up-shift and increased during a downshift. Why is this done?

Hi all, I don't know if I'm on the right forum to ask this, but maybe somebody knows anything about brightness temperatures measured by remote sensing devices. In a paper that I read "Atmospheric corrections for retrieving ground brightness temperature at commonly-used passive microwave...

Homework Statement Q1. A hydraulic jack has a load piston diameter of 150 mm, and a plunger diameter of 25 mm a) Ignoring loses, calculate the force needed on the plunger to raise a load of 2500 kg b) Calculate how many stroke of the plunger will be required to raise the load 180 mm, if each...

I have a single machine connected to an infinite bus with the following parameters: - Sending end power = 3.75MW - RL=5.18 ohms - XL=130 ohms - VS (Generator bus)=161kV - VR (Infinite bus)=161kV - Sending end voltage angle (delta) = 0.01877 (Angle which allows 3.75MW to be transferred)...

Folks, I am still thinking of the possible approach to solving a problem of having to run poles and power lines to transmit electricity from one point to the other. Can there be a way it could be done in that we can convert electric current into electro-magnetic waves that can be transmitted...

All transmission lines have a characteristic impedance which is different based on their length and voltage and frequency (for AC lines) , Also all transformers and their primaries have a different impedance based on the turnsratio, core steel type etc factors. Now I read that for any given line...

Say a power station transmits 1008 MWh of power per year to a facility however they only receive 900 MWh say the transmission line is 15 km long how would you calculate average power loss per km, now I know that theoretically it will just be 7.2 MWh per km but what calculations would you make to...

I saw this paper and would like some comments on it if possible. http://www.pnas.org/content/114/19/4920.full.pdf

Homework Statement Compute the moment of intertia Io of the two cylinders, per their axis of symmetry, and then, using Steiner's formula, the moment of inertia Ib, as per the axis of rotation. Homework Equations Io = 1/2*m*R2 Ib = 2*(Io + m*x2) The Attempt at a Solution Now, this is...

When trying to abruptly stop a motorcycle that is in motion, can engine braking actually have a negative effect on the rate of deceleration? Scenario: a motorcycle is traveling down a straight highway at 100mph in 6th gear and needs to perform an emergency stop. The weather is clear and road...

Homework Statement [/B] Can someone help me solving this problem ? A lossless coaxial cable is used in a data network. it has an er =3 (relative permittivity) It is driven by a pulse source with internal impedance of 10 ohm, 1 V amplitude, square wave with duration of both positive and...

Homework Statement In this problem we shall consider the scattering from repulsive δ-function potentials. We have already considered a single such potential. If the strength of the potential is V0, the transmitted and reflected fluxes may be represented by the transmission and reflection...

Homework Statement A 400 kV transmission line has a length of 500 km and a reactance of 0,4 Ω/km. How much power can you transmit, if the power angle (the angle between the voltages of the beginning and the end) is limited to 25 degrees? What would then be the line’s boundary power limit for...

I've been looking for that in various applied electromagnetics books but none of them cover that subject even on the internet the only website I saw it mentioned was in this forum I guess I'd like a book with a level a little above for example cheng or balanis

Homework Statement An interface is formed between a block of aluminium (density = ##2.70 \times 10^3 kg/m^3##, speed of sound =##6.40 \times 10^3m/s##) and a block of copper (density = ##8.96 \times 10^3 kg/m^3##, speed of sound =##4.76 \times 10^3m/s##). Longitudinal waves traveling through...

At t=0 we have a particle incident from the left on a step potential (where V(x) = V0 for x ≥ 0 and V(x) = 0 otherwise). The particle has energy of 5/4 V0 and the question asks to find the probability that it will be on the right (ie. x > 0) as t→∞. I understand how to solve this problem and...

Homework Statement [/B] This question was raised on the 11th January 2015 but that thread appears to be no longer active now. There are 2 parts to the question (a) and (b). Initially I am only trying to work on (a) Figure shows a 50 Hz, high-voltage, transmission line. The relationships...

Homework Statement A transmission line has the primary coefficients as given below. ##R=2\Omega/m## ##L=8 nH/m## ##G=0.5 mS/m## ##C=0.23 pF/m## Determine the lines secondary coefficients ##Z0##. ##\alpha## and ##\beta## at a frequency of ##1 GHz## Homework Equations [/B] In my notes I am...

Homework Statement [/B] a ##50\Omega## lossless transmission line of length ##0.4\lambda## is terminated in a load of ##(40+j30)\Omega##. Determine, using ##Zin=Z0\frac{ZL cos \beta l+j Z0 sin \beta l}{Z0 cos \beta l +j ZL sin \beta l}## the input impedance to the line. ##Z0=50\Omega##...