BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS

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Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

METALLIC CABLE TRANSMISSION MEDIA

DEFINITIONS

TERMS

1)

Provides a conduit in which electromagnetic signals

are contained.

2)

Emitted then radiated through air or a vacuum.

3)

Used to propagate electromagnetic signals between

two locations in a communications system.

Cable Transmission
Medium

4)

Most common means of interconnecting devices in

local area networks.

Cable Transmission
Systems

5)

Metallic conductor system used to transfer electrical

energy from one point to another using electrical
current flow.

Transmission line

6)

Two basic kinds of waves.

longitudinal and
transverse

7)

The rate at which the periodic wave repeats.

8)

Currents that flow in opposite directions in a

balanced wire pair.

9)

Currents that flow in the same direction.

Longitudinal currents

10)

Cancellation of common mode signals.

Common mode rejection

11)

One wire is at the ground potential, whereas the

other is at signal potential.

12)

A circuit device used to connect a balanced

transmission line to an unbalanced load.

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Guided Transmission
Media
Unguided Transmission
Media

Frequency

Metallic circuit currents

Single-ended or
unbalanced

balun

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Most common metallic cables used to interconnect

data communications systems and computer
networks.

Parallel-conductor
transmission lines and
coaxial transmission lines.

15)

Formed by twisting two insulated conductors around

each other.

Twisted-pair

16)

Types of twisted pair.

17)

Coupling that takes place when a transmitted signal

is coupled into the received signal at the same end
of the cable.

Unshielded twisted pair

and Shielded twisted pair

Near-end crosstalk

Pair 1: blue/white stripe

and blue
Pair 2: orange/white
stripe and orange
Pair 3: green/white strip[e
and green
Pair 4: brown/white stripe
and brown

18)

Standard color code specified by the EIA for CAT-5

cable.

19)

Woven into a mesh.

20)

Name given to the area between the ceiling and the

root in a single-story building or between the ceiling
and the floor of the next higher level in a multi-story
building.

Plenum

21)

Used for high data transmission rates to reduce losses

and isolate transmission path.

Coaxial

22)

Refers to the woven stranded mesh that surrounds

some types of coaxial cables.

23)

One layer of foil insulation and one layer of braided

shielding.

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Braid

Shielding

Dual shielded

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Rigid air-filled; solid

flexible

24)

Types of coaxial cables.

26)

Uniformly distributed throughout the length of the line.

27)

Transmission characteristics of a transmission line.

28)

Impedance seen looking into an infinitely long line.

Surge impedance

29)

Expressed the attenuation and the phase shift per

unit length of a transmission line.

Propagation constants

30)

Ratio of the actual velocity of propagation of an

electromagnetic wave through a given medium to
the velocity of propagation through a vacuum.

31)

Relative permittivity of a material.

32)

Several ways in which signal power is lost.

33)

Voltage that propagates from the source toward the

load.

34)

Voltage that propagates that propagates from the

load toward the source.

35)

Transmission line with no reflected power.

36)

Vector quantity that represents the ratio of reflected

voltage to incident voltage or reflected current to
incident current.

37)

Incident power is absorbed by the load.

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Distributed parameters

Secondary constants

Velocity factor.

Dielectric constant
Conductor loss, radiation
loss, dielectric heating
loss, coupling loss and
corona
Incident voltage

Reflected voltage

Flat or non resonant line

Reflection coefficient

Matched line
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Unmatched or
mismatched line

38)

Incident power returned (reflected) to the source.

39)

Two travelling waves set up an interference pattern.

40)

Ratio of the maximum voltage to the minimum

voltage or the maximum current to the minimum
current of a standing wave on a transmission line.

Standing-wave ratio

41)

Used to matched transmission lines to purely resistive

loads whose resistance is not equal to the
characteristic impedance of the line.

Quarter-wavelength
transformers

42)

A technique that can be used to locate an

impairment in a metallic cable

Time domain
reflectometry (TDR)

43)

Return signal.

44)

Simply a flat conductor separated from a ground

plane by an insulating di-electric material.

Microstrip

45)

Simply a flat conductor sandwiched between two

ground planes.

Stripline

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Standing wave

Echo

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