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Driving Point Impedance

By inspection, we can write

$\displaystyle R_d(s) = R + Ls \left\Vert \frac{1}{Cs}\right.
= R +\frac{L/C}{L...
...}{Cs}}
= R + \frac{Ls}{1+LCs^2} = R + \frac{1}{C}
\frac{s}{s^2+\frac{1}{LC}}.
$

where $ \Vert$ denotes ``in parallel with,'' and we used the general formula, memorized by any electrical engineering student,

$\displaystyle \zbox {R_1 \Vert R_2 = \frac{R_1 R_2}{R_1 + R_2}.}
$

That is, the impedance of the parallel combination of impedances $ R_1$ and $ R_2$ is given by the product divided by the sum of the impedances.


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