hey can you hand me that wire please no not the cable not the cord the wire huh
what do you mean you thought they were the same thing I guess it's not that
surprising since most people don't know the difference between them since cable
and cord can often be used interchangeably and then a wire is a
component of either of them so we'll start with wires a wire is a single
conductor usually made of one strand but sometimes more of a conductive metal
like copper or aluminum since it's made of a conductor it can carry electricity
either to power something on the other end or deliver some type of signal often
for telecommunication but the important thing here is that a wire even if it's
got multiple strands acts as a single conductor a cable is a group of two or
more wires glass fibers or other materials often twisted and running
together to the same place just like with wires most cables can carry either
electricity or electrical signals but there's a lot more variety in their
design depending on the intended application copper cables come in all
kinds of sizes and shapes simple three conductor AC power cables the type
you'll have all around your house twisted pair the type you'll find in an
Ethernet network cable coaxial where the two conductors carry different signals
and the list goes on and on sometimes
they're all working together like how the two wires in a DC power cable are
just insulated positive and negative power for one device but in other cases
like a thunder Vol cable a sweet technology that we covered in this video
here they might actually carry power and multiple types of signaling along the
same cable at the same time to be broken out at the other end the definition does
trickfy a little though where materials other than metal are involved a fiber
optic cable is still a cable even when it's a single strand because a wire must
be made of a conductive metal and while outside of electronics a cable is still
usually made of metal like on a suspension bridge in some cases only
when it's very heavy and strong it can refer to a rope a cord is very similar
to a cable multiple strands of either a conductor or rope all insulated or
Twisted together and going to the same place with the main difference being the
flexibility and ruggedness so for non-conductors the thick ropes from
before would be cables but not cords and
for a thin rope that would be a cord but not a cable for electrical stuff most of
what you find in your house could be called either a cord or a cable interchangeably but any thicker
industrial grade gear is automatically a
cable so now you know while all of these
things are related and there is some overlap they are actually different
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