Born2bwire
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I was looking through another thread where someone wanted some sites that discussed transmission lines and waveguides. One of the things I find is that most sites only touch the surface and give people an idea of whats going on but do not give them enough information to try and work out the phenomenon.
www.amanogawa.com/index.html
This site contains the instructional material that is used in the University of Illinois' ECE450 (Lines Fields and Waves) course. If you click on "Transmission Lines" or "Electromagnetic Waves" you can view the class notes (we do not work out of a textbook so everything that we use for reference is on the site) under "Instructional Material." You can also play around with some applets and.... Holy crap!! They now have a fully interactive smith chart, that's so cool! Anyway, this site is the best one I know of if you want to learn about the physics and engineering behind cables without having to buy a textbook. The instructional material is more of a lecture presentation so it is a little sparse when you have not sat in on the talks, but for those that know a little about circuits and electronics you should be able to grasp most of it if you start from the beginning and work your way through. The electromagnetic waves section discusses waveguides, which gets into the aspects of just how waves propagate in a cable or other kind of guide, but it does not get into it too deeply since it gets a little complex when you talk about cylindrical geometries and dielectric waveguides.
So I hope some you find this website interesting. I always like to come back to it now and then and play around with the applets to double check my intuition on something.
www.amanogawa.com/index.html
This site contains the instructional material that is used in the University of Illinois' ECE450 (Lines Fields and Waves) course. If you click on "Transmission Lines" or "Electromagnetic Waves" you can view the class notes (we do not work out of a textbook so everything that we use for reference is on the site) under "Instructional Material." You can also play around with some applets and.... Holy crap!! They now have a fully interactive smith chart, that's so cool! Anyway, this site is the best one I know of if you want to learn about the physics and engineering behind cables without having to buy a textbook. The instructional material is more of a lecture presentation so it is a little sparse when you have not sat in on the talks, but for those that know a little about circuits and electronics you should be able to grasp most of it if you start from the beginning and work your way through. The electromagnetic waves section discusses waveguides, which gets into the aspects of just how waves propagate in a cable or other kind of guide, but it does not get into it too deeply since it gets a little complex when you talk about cylindrical geometries and dielectric waveguides.
So I hope some you find this website interesting. I always like to come back to it now and then and play around with the applets to double check my intuition on something.
