Talk:Skin effect
From Academic Kids
While reading for this article, I discovered that some of the effects that are attributed in Wikipedia to Faraday shielding (see Faraday cage article) are in fact due to the skin effect. To put it briefly, Faraday shielding is due to the behaviour of electrostatic charges trying to maximize their distances from each other, while the skin effect is due to a magnetic field, created by a changing current, acting on that current. On the other hand, perhaps someone really smart will tell me that both effects are just different aspects of some deeper principle. I'll wait for comments before wading in to the Faraday cage article. -- Heron
Lamb and 1883
According to Paul Nahin's biography of Oliver Heaviside, Horace Lamb published a paper on the skin effect in January 1883 in spherical conductors, and Oliver Heaviside generalized that in 1885. --Wtshymanski 23:23, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
