From: Peterson, James F (FL51) ([email protected])
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 09:39:12 PST
"If you change the geometry but not the dielectric, you affect BOTH L and C
equally but in opposite directions, such that Pd really doesn't change."
Exactly - and that's the part I was missing (L changes also). Thanks all,
for the clarification.
It's amazing how all of this fits together.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ingraham, Andrew [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:57 AM
To: '[email protected]'; 'Peterson, James F (FL51)'
Subject: RE: [SI-LIST] : A basic question
>So, if what Ken says below is true, then Pd does not equal (LC)^(1/2)!!!
Um, why not?
Pd (delay/unit length) really DOES equal (LC)^(1/2).
If you change the geometry but not the dielectric, you affect BOTH L and C
equally but in opposite directions, such that Pd really doesn't change.
Fundamentally, Pd must not change, because the electromagnetic field
propagates through the dielectric between the conductors; very little of it
penetrates into the conductors. Thus the dielectric medium determines Pd.
Then, C and L are related to one another according to Pd=(LC)^(1/2).
>Propagation delay is strictly a function of the permittivity and
>permeability of
>the medium (er and ur).
>Characteristic impedance is a funtion of both of these, plus the geometry
of
>the
>conductors carrying
>the current. While changes in the conductors will affect Zo, it will not
>affect
>prop delay.
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