Cable makers try to get as close to this ideal as possible and transmission lines are often assumed to have a purely real characteristic impedance in calculations, however, it is conventional to still use the term "characteristic impedance" rather than "characteristic resistance".
Cable makers try to get as close to this ideal as possible and transmission lines are often assumed to have a purely real characteristic impedance in calculations, it is conventional to still use the term "characteristic impedance" rather than "characteristic resistance". This is however.