THE USE OF A SPREADSHEET FOR SINUSOIDAL STEADY-STATE TRANSMISSION-LINE AND OPTICS PROBLEMS

It is shown how a spreadsheet on a personal computer can be used for s inusoidal steady-state transmission line and optics problems. It gives students the experience of programming the equations rather than rely ing on special purpose software written by someone else. At the same t ime, the students do not need to expend too much effort on coding in a standard computer language, and the numerical effort is accomplished by the computer rather than on a hand held calculator.