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Old January 14th 09, 12:22 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Jim Kelley Jim Kelley is offline
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Default Contrary current flow within a radiator

Dave wrote:

"Art Unwin" wrote in message
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( I am assuming that skin depthg is not limitless.)


of course it is limitless, it is an exponential function so it never
goes to zero. the so called 'skin depth' is only the point where the
current has dropped to 1/e or about 37% of the surface value, still a
significant current.


The plots at the link Frank provided show current going rather abruptly
to zero - even negative ("contrary"?) in some cases. I wouldn't presume
to know whether it is modeled correctly.

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