I am learning about Transmission Line here:http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_2/chpt_14/3.html
And this is the part that I don't understand.
Because the electrons in the two wires transfer motion to and from each other at nearly the speed of light, the wave front of voltage and current change will propagate down the length of the wires at that same velocity, resulting in the distributed capacitance and inductance progressively charging to full voltage and current, respectively, like this:
In this picture, it seems to me that capacitors are charged graduallly, one after another. After the first capacitor is fully charged, the second capacitor will begin to be charged.
I don't know why it happens like that. Why capacitors don't charge like this:
At the beginning, the first capacitor is charged but when it has some voltage(not fully charged), it will act as a source and continue to charge to second capacitor. And the same happen for the rest capacitors.
And this is the part that I don't understand.
Because the electrons in the two wires transfer motion to and from each other at nearly the speed of light, the wave front of voltage and current change will propagate down the length of the wires at that same velocity, resulting in the distributed capacitance and inductance progressively charging to full voltage and current, respectively, like this:
In this picture, it seems to me that capacitors are charged graduallly, one after another. After the first capacitor is fully charged, the second capacitor will begin to be charged.
I don't know why it happens like that. Why capacitors don't charge like this:
At the beginning, the first capacitor is charged but when it has some voltage(not fully charged), it will act as a source and continue to charge to second capacitor. And the same happen for the rest capacitors.
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