What is the official name of the 'skin effect'?

Subject: What is the official name of the 'skin effect'?

Date: Mon Mar 31 23:01:35 1997
Posted by Kent Golden
Grade level: undergrad
School: Quinnipiac College
City: Hamden State/Province: CT
Country: USA
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 859870895.Es

Message:

I have forgotten the scientific name of the "skin effect", which states that electricity tends to flow in the outer most areas of a conductor. (The real reason why you are safe from lightning in an automobile, not the "rubber tire theory"!)Please let me know what it is if you know. Thanks! :)

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