Transmission lines parallel fault

[fractal01]

I am trying to draw the bounce diagram for the trans line in the picture attached to my thread.

Sorry won't let me upload...

https://www.dropbox.com/home#!/lightbox/home/Year 2/Semester 2/mbgm9mw6

I am not sure what to do here because I have never seen anything like it before. It loos like there is no Zo for the branch involving the load resistance of the fault.

I need to find the times taken for the wave to arrive at the load resistor and for the primary reflection to arrive at the source.
Then the magnitude of the primary reflected wave, then the voltage V1.

Any ideas welcome! If you know anything I could read up on, then that would be helful too. Thanks :).

 

[nilesh_pat]

The best way to approach this is to use the concept of transmission line theory. This theory states that when an electrical signal is sent along a transmission line, it will encounter a certain amount of resistance, capacitance, and inductance. This resistance, capacitance and inductance will cause the signal to be reflected in some way depending on the parameters of the transmission line. In order to calculate the bounce diagram for the transmission line in the picture, you will need to first calculate the characteristics of the transmission line, such as its impedance, propagation constant, and characteristic impedance. Once you have these values, you can then use them to calculate the reflection coefficient at different points along the line, which will give you the voltage and current at each point. You can then plot this data to get the bounce diagram.