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  2. Alternating current - Wikipedia

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    2.2 High frequency. ... Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, ...

  3. Tesla coil - Wikipedia

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    [7] [9] [11] The alternating current output is in the low radio frequency range, usually between 50 kHz and 1 MHz. [9] [11] Although some oscillator-driven coils generate a continuous alternating current, most Tesla coils have a pulsed output; [7] the high voltage consists of a rapid string of pulses of radio frequency alternating current.

  4. Electrosurgery - Wikipedia

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    Electrosurgery is the application of a high-frequency (radio frequency) alternating polarity, electrical current to biological tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate tissue.

  5. Skin effect - Wikipedia

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    For alternating current, current density decreases exponentially from the surface towards the inside. Skin depth, δ, is defined as the depth where the current density is just 1/e (about 37%) of the value at the surface; it depends on the frequency of the current and the electrical and magnetic properties of the conductor.

  6. Utility frequency - Wikipedia

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    The waveform of 230 V and 50 Hz compared with 120 V and 60 Hz. The utility frequency, (power) line frequency (American English) or mains frequency (British English) is the nominal frequency of the oscillations of alternating current (AC) in a wide area synchronous grid transmitted from a power station to the end-user.

  7. Oudin coil - Wikipedia

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    Oudin coil used for medical electrotherapy, 1907, and a schematic diagram of its circuit (left).. An Oudin coil, also called an Oudin oscillator or Oudin resonator, is a resonant transformer circuit that generates very high voltage, high frequency alternating current (AC) electricity at low current levels, [1] [2] [3] used in the obsolete forms of electrotherapy around the turn of the 20th ...

  8. AC power - Wikipedia

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    In a simple alternating current (AC) circuit consisting of a source and a linear time-invariant load, both the current and voltage are sinusoidal at the same frequency. [3] If the load is purely resistive, the two quantities reverse their polarity at the same time. Hence, the instantaneous power, given by the product of voltage and current, is ...

  9. Electric power conversion - Wikipedia

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    Operating at high frequency and supplying low power, power converters have much smaller transformers compared with those of fundamental-frequency, high-power applications. The current in the primary winding of a transformer help to sets up the mutual flux in accordance with Ampere's law and balances the demagnetizing effect of the load current ...