How to turn a 0 to 5V square wave pulse into a -500mV to +500mV square pulse using just passive components?
You can use a 5:1 resistive divider followed by a DC blocking capacitor.  You are going to have to use a large enough capacitor to get the RC time constant well below the fundamental frequency of the square wave.







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This can be simulated to see the various waveforms and experiment with the values and frequencies.