### Wave Digital Mass

In the case of a mass , we have

which implies its reflectance is, from Eq.(F.13),

Setting gives

and this choice also turns out to eliminate the delay-free path in the digital version. In view of the expression for the inverse bilinear transform in Eq.(F.12), i.e., , the bilinear transform of is immediately seen to be

where we defined . The corresponding difference equation for the wave digital mass is

and its wave flow diagram is drawn in Fig.F.2.

Thus, the wave digital mass is simply a unit-sample delay and a negation. The fact that the value of the mass has been canceled out will be addressed below in the subsection on adaptors,'' i.e., it only affects interconnection with other elements. For now, just remember that the reference impedance was chosen to be equal to the mass in order to get this simple wave flow diagram. Also note that the WDF mass simulator has no delay-free path from input to output.

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