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[5, 2012] 

Journal of Electrical Engineering, Vol 63, 5 (2012) 273-280; 10.2478/v10187-012-0040-8

UNIFIED APPROACH TO THE IMPULSE RESPONSE AND GREEN FUNCTION IN THE CIRCUIT AND FIELD THEORY,
PART I: ONE-DIMENSIONAL CASE

¼ubomír Šumichrast

   In the circuit theory the concept of the impulse response of a linear system due to its excitation by the Dirac delta function δ(t) together with the convolution principle is widely used and accepted. The rigorous theory of symbolic functions, sometimes called distributions, where also the delta function belongs, is rather abstract and requires subtle mathematical tools [1], [2], [3], [4]. Nevertheless, the most people intuitively well understand the delta function as a derivative of the (Heaviside) unit step function 1(t) without too much mathematical rigor. The concept of the impulse response of linear systems is here approached in a unified manner and generalized to the time-space phenomena in one dimension (transmission lines), as well as in a subsequent paper [5] to the phenomena in more dimensions (static and dynamic electromagnetic fields).

Keywords: circuit theory, field theory, impulse response, Green function


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