Thursday, 1 March 2018

homework and exercises - Impedance of the infinitely long circuit


Is there a way to find impedance of the infinite circuit like this?


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It will be much simpler if one has either parallel or series combination but here is both.



Answer



The standard trick is to split off the circuit after the first link,


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and treat the 'tail' as another copy of the circuit itself. This means that the impedance $Z$ of the whole circuit must satisfy



$$ Z=2Z_1+\frac{1}{\frac{1}{Z_2}+\frac{1}{Z}}. $$


This gives a quadratic equation in $Z$ which is easy enough to solve.


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