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## (7.1)
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Cables designed to carry signals with minimum pickup of interference often consist of a twisted pair
of conductors surrounded by a grounded shield. Why the twist? Why the shield?
......@@ -24,8 +25,10 @@ filter for the sorts of noise that can reach the conducting pair, with the cutof
determined by the shield's thickness. Grounding it ensures that built up static charge has a place
to go, though not all shields are grounded.
## (7.2)
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Salt water has a conductivity ∼4 S/m. What is the skin depth at $$10^4$$ Hz?
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## (7.3)
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Integrate Poynting’s vector $$P = E \times H$$ to find the power flowing across a cross-sectional
slice of a coaxial cable, and relate the answer to the current and voltage in the cable.
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so we can write the total power as $$IV$$.
## (7.4)
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Find the characteristic impedance and signal velocity for a transmission line consisting of two
parallel strips with a width $$w$$ and a separation $$h$$ (Figure 7.4). You can ignore fringing
fields by assuming that they are sections of conductors infinitely wide.
## (7.5)
{:.question}
The most common coaxial cable, RG58/U, has a dielectric with a relative permittivity of 2.26, an
inner radius of 0.406 mm, and an outer radius of 1.48 mm.
### (a)
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What is the characteristic impedance?
### (b)
{:.question}
What is the velocity?
### (c)
{:.question}
If a computer has a clock speed of 1 ns, how long can a length of RG58/U be and still deliver a
pulse within one clock cycle?
### (d)
{:.question}
It is often desirable to use thinner coaxial cable to minimize size or weight but still match the
impedance of RG58/U (to minimize reflections). If such a cable has an outer diameter of 30 mils (a
mil is a thousandth of an inch), what is the inner diameter?
### (e)
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For RG58/U, at what frequency does the wavelength become comparable to
the diameter?
## (7.6)
{:.question}
CAT6 twisted pair cable used in ethernet networks has a propagation delay of 4.6 ns/m, and an
impedance of 100 ohms.
### (a)
{:.question}
What is the physical length of a minimum size 64 byte frame?
### (b)
{:.question}
Now consider what would happen if a “T” connector was used to connect one CAT6 cable to two other
ones. Estimate the reflection coefficient for a signal arriving at the T.
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