Propagation constant a conductor. The skin effect causes R along the conductor to be approximately dependent on frequency according to Losses in the dielectric depend on the loss tangent (tan "δ") of the material divided by the wavelength of the signal. Thus they are directly proportional to the frequency. The attenuation constant for a particular propagation mode in an optical fiber is the real part of the axial propagation constant. In electromagnetic theory, the phase constant, also called phase change constant, parameter or coefficient is the imaginary component of the propagation constant for a plane wave. It represents the change in phase
Successive over-relaxation methods were designed for computation by human calculators, and they required some expertise to ensure convergence to the solution which made them inapplicable for programming on digital computers. These aspects are discussed in the thesis of David M. Young, Jr. Given a square system of "n" linear equations with unknown x: where: Then "A" can be decomposed into a diagonal component "D", and strictly lower and upper triangular components "L" and "U": where The system of linear equations may be rewritten as: for a constant "ω" > 1, called the "relaxation factor". The method of successive over-relaxation is an iterative