Ladder

Distributed vs lumped — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
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    A ladder is not a line

    A transmission line is usually introduced as the limit of a chain of inductors and capacitors as the number of sections goes to infinity. That is true, and it gives entirely the wrong impression of how close a finite chain gets. Forty sections still ring through every plateau by five per cent, and extrapolating the fitted convergence, reaching one per cent would need about nine hundred and sixty.

    rung 2 · lines

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