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  2. Skin effect - Wikipedia

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    Cause of skin effect. A main current I flowing through a conductor induces a magnetic field H.If the current increases, as in this figure, the resulting increase in H induces separate, circulating eddy currents I W which partially cancel the current flow in the center and reinforce it near the skin.

  3. Series and parallel circuits - Wikipedia

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    In a series circuit, the current that flows through each of the components is the same, and the voltage across the circuit is the sum of the individual voltage drops across each component. [1] In a parallel circuit, the voltage across each of the components is the same, and the total current is the sum of the currents flowing through each ...

  4. Proximity effect (electromagnetism) - Wikipedia

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    The coil is limited to a single layer, and the turns are spaced apart to avoid having parallel wires carrying the same current near each other. In electromagnetics, proximity effect is a redistribution of electric current occurring in nearby parallel electrical conductors carrying alternating current (AC), caused by magnetic effects. In ...

  5. Electric current - Wikipedia

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    A flow of positive charges gives the same electric current, and has the same effect in a circuit, as an equal flow of negative charges in the opposite direction. Since current can be the flow of either positive or negative charges, or both, a convention is needed for the direction of current that is independent of the type of charge carriers ...

  6. Eddy current - Wikipedia

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    In electromagnetism, an eddy current (also called Foucault's current) is a loop of electric current induced within conductors by a changing magnetic field in the conductor according to Faraday's law of induction or by the relative motion of a conductor in a magnetic field. Eddy currents flow in closed loops within conductors, in planes ...

  7. Characteristic impedance - Wikipedia

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    The solutions to the long line transmission equations include incident and reflected portions of the voltage and current: = + + = / + / When the line is terminated with its characteristic impedance, the reflected portions of these equations are reduced to 0 and the solutions to the voltage and current along the transmission line are wholly ...

  8. Electromagnetic induction - Wikipedia

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    On the far side of the figure, the return current flows from the rotating arm through the far side of the rim to the bottom brush. The B-field induced by this return current opposes the applied B-field, tending to decrease the flux through that side of the circuit, opposing the increase in flux due to rotation. On the near side of the figure ...

  9. List of electrical phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Pyroelectric effect — The potential created in certain materials when they are heated. Redox — (short for reduction-oxidation reaction) A chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed. Skin effect — Tendency of charges to distribute at the surface of a conductor, when an alternating current passes through it.