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How to derive intrinsic impedance of parallel plate transmission line?

I've been Googling variations of this for hours but I can't seem to find any information on it and the formula my professor provided just seems to come out of nowhere and he provides no explanation or ...
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Why do we use wires/conductors to transport energy?

I am currently studying Maxwell equations and I learned that copper wires are essentially just wave guides for EM waves. Why do we not use an insulator to guide the wave and transport the energy which ...
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Electric and magnetic fields boundary conditions

For a perfectly conducting and perfectly dielectric interface, I understood that tangential component of electric field is zero and continuous. But I have read that the normal component of magnetic ...
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Wave guide boundary conditions

Why only the normal component of Electric field and the parallel component of Magnetic field exist at the surface of a wave guide or any conductor?
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