There were a couple of good articles on this in a recent Elektor magazine including a practical project to follow.You could investigate the construction and use of a simple time domain reflectometer.
Good website - I was looking for that one!I can implement the circuit which I have seen .It involved oscilloscope and source generator. I have to study alot for understanding its working.Physics is not my major subject.I am doing software engineering.I think now you would be understand that I have only surface knowledge of physics.The site is
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/tdr.html
by Robert Keim
by Jake Hertz
by Jake Hertz
by Jake Hertz