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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: skin effect
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Definition: for an alternating electric current in a conductor, phenomenon in which the current density is greater near the surface than in the interior of the conductor

NOTE 1 – The skin effect increases the resistance and decreases the inductance of a conductor with the frequency of the electric current.

NOTE 2 – The skin effect occurs also in the more general case of any time-varying current.


Publication date:1998-08
Source841-01-24 MOD
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