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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:31:36PM -0600, Steve Meuse wrote: > On 8/21/05, Peter Dambier <[1][email protected]> wrote: > I have had a look into one of my microwave books. I have seen in > coax cables the speed of lite drop to 90% or 80% depending on the > insulator, the dielectric. > > I believe this is referred to as "velocity factor". Not the speed of light; the speed at which the electromagnetic wavefront travels through *that* conductor. Yep; this is velocity factor. It can go down surprisingly far. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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