Re: skin depth

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: Peter Lawrence <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun.COM>
 >
 > I still find it very odd that apparently no one has done skin depth calcs
 > for cylindrical wire, only for hypothetical infinitely wide infinitely deep
 > flat plane conductors...
 >
 > Sounds like a good problem for a math-physics type, or even a
 > physical-simulation type.

This was studied, long time ago. The first time apparently by Maxwell.
See item #690 in his book "A treatise on electricity and magnetism".
Other studies about the problem were done by Heaviside, Kelvin,
Rayleigh, Russell, etc.
The problem of a straight wire is already quite complicated. I don't
know about a closed-form solution when the wire is in a coil.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz