Question

What are the axial and equatorial bonds in cyclohexane?

Answer 1

Got a model set...?

Explanation:

So what are the axial and equatorial bonds WITH RESPECT to the plane of the ring. CLEARLY, the red coloured substituents are AXIAL.

The ring can undergo a fairly soft exchange of conformation with EXCHANGE of axial and equatorial positions... You should make models to understand and vizualize this exchange.

And if one of the carbon atoms are substituted with an alkyl group, the conformer with the equatorial substituent is certainly favoured....