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...to account for different current flow at the skin versus the center.

Ampere's Law tells us that current through a wire is confined to the "skin".

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by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 01, 2008 at 16:50 UTC
    Ok, then you need to decide whether you will do your computations from the skin surface, or assume the current is at the center of the conductor. A skin calculation will be quite abit more difficult. To be honest, the whole idea of trying to accurately compute these things from formulas, for the real world is mind-boggling, if not futile.

    I'll bet they use some sort of supercomputer simulation, to get formulas with fudge factor constants for different conditions and materials.

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