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Equivalent Circuit of a Transmission Line

A transmission line is a means of transfer of information from one point to another. Usually transmission line consists of two conductors. Since each conductor of the line has a certain length and diameter, it must have resistance(R) and inductance (L). Further since the two wires or conductors are close to each other, therefore there must be capacitance (C) between them. Lastly, since the wires are separated by a medium known as dielectric that can not be perfect in its insulation and hence current leaks through it. This leakage of current through the dielectric is represented by a shunt conductance(G). The transmission line can be thought as a distributed network which consists of cascaded sections and each section consists the above properties. So the equivalent circuit may be as like below:


Fig: Equivalent circuit of Transmission Line
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