East Coast outage?

Chris Lewis clewis at nortelnetworks.com
Sun Aug 17 12:16:32 UTC 2003


hackerwacker at tarpit.cybermesa.com wrote:


> I am a little rusty on this one, but I seem to remember that AC travels 
> only on the outside skin of the wire but DC uses all the wire. 

"Skin effect" is only significant at high frequencies (lots of megahertz 
and up).  At 60hz it can be ignored.





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