Coaxial cable

- Ooter plastic sheath
- Woven copper shield
- Inner dielectric insulator
- Copper core
Coaxial cable, or coax (pronoonced 'ko.æks), is a type o cable that haes an inner conductor surroondit bi a tubular insulatin layer, surroondit bi a tubular conductin shield. Mony coaxial cables an aa hae an insulatin ooter sheath or jacket. The term coaxial comes frae the inner conductor an the ooter shield sharin a geometric axis. Coaxial cable wis inventit bi Inglis ingineer an mathematician Oliver Heaviside, who patentit the design in 1880.[1] Coaxial cable differs frae ither shielded cable uised for carryin lawer-frequency signals, such as audio signals, in that the dimensions o the cable are controlled tae give a precise, constant conductor spacin, which is needit for it tae function efficiently as a radio frequency transmission line.
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- ↑ Nahin, Paul J. (2002). Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age. ISBN 0-8018-6909-9.