This document provides notes on transmission line theory. Some key points:
- Transmission line theory is needed when the length of a line is significant compared to a wavelength.
- Transmission lines have per-unit-length parameters of capacitance, inductance, resistance, and conductance.
- The telegrapher's equations describe voltage and current on a transmission line as a function of position and time.
- Waves on a transmission line travel at the phase velocity, which depends on the transmission line's characteristics.
- The characteristic impedance Z0 of a transmission line relates the amplitudes of voltage and current waves traveling on the line.