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📝 Guided media: Coaxial Cable

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Practice MCQs for Guided media: Coaxial Cable. Test your knowledge with carefully crafted questions across easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.

🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-31

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Q1. If the inner conductor diameter of a coaxial cable is increased while the outer diameter remains the same, what happens to the characteristic impedance?

🔹 A. Increase
🔹 B. Decrease
🔹 C. Remain unchanged
🔹 D. Become zero

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. A coaxial cable with dielectric constant ε_r = 2.25 has inner diameter 2 mm and outer diameter 6 mm. If another cable uses the same outer diameter but inner diameter 1 mm, how do their characteristic impedances compare?

🔹 A. Higher
🔹 B. Lower
🔹 C. Same
🔹 D. Cannot determine

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: A

Q3. Given Z0 = 75 Ω, ε_r = 2.25, and outer diameter D = 6 mm, determine the required inner conductor diameter d using the characteristic impedance formula.

🔹 A. 1.2 mm
🔹 B. 1.5 mm
🔹 C. 2.0 mm
🔹 D. 2.5 mm

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A

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