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Sentences with skin effect

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  • The single biggest source of distortion in electrical transmission lines is the skin effect, which causes a dramatic increase in the effective resistance of the conductors as frequency increases.At short-wave frequencies, a phenomenon named skin effect forces all current to flow into the outside layer of metal.Skin effect is the tendency of current to stick to the outer layers of a conductor due to the presence of internal flux, that often happens at higher frequencies.
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