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Skin Effect in Solenoids

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SKIN effect in long, single layer solenoids wound with solid round wire and used at very high frequencies has been treated by Sommerfeld,1 Lenz,2 and Abraham, L. Bloch, and E. Bloch.3 (The frequency is supposed so high that the Rayleigh approximation applies.)

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  1. A. Sommerfeld, "Über den Wechselstromwiderstand von Spulen, " Ann. d. Phys., 329, p. 609, 1907.

  2. W. Lenz, "Über die Kapazität der Spulen und deren Widerstand und Selbstinduktion bei Wecbselstrom," Ann. d. Phys., 342, p. 923, 1912.

  3. H. Abraham, L. Bloch et E. Bloch, "Radio-télégraphie militaire," 1919, E.C.M.R. Report No. 4629.

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BREIT, G. Skin Effect in Solenoids. Nature 110, 668 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110668a0

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