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skin depth

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skin depth [′skin ‚depth]
(electromagnetism)
The depth beneath the surface of a conductor, which is carrying current at a given frequency due to electromagnetic waves incident on its surface, at which the current density drops to one neper below the current density at the surface.


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[FIGURE 8 OMITTED] Equation 7 is a skin depth expression with [sigma] being the conductor's conductivity (inverse of resistivity [rho]), [[mu].
The range of skin depth for the thin-wall ductile iron plates investigated was between 0.
The current distribution in the conductors will be frequency dependent due to skin depth effects.
 
 
 
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