Current sheet
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current-sheet-187-7893908
title:
Current sheet
text:
A current sheet is an electric current that is confined to a surface, rather than being spread through a volume of space. Current sheets feature in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), a model of electrically conductive fluids: if there is an electric current through part of the volume of such a fluid, magnetic forces tend to expel it from the fluid, compressing the current into thin layers that pass through the volume. The largest occurring current sheet in the Solar System is the so-called heliospheric
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Electric current confined to a surface
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sheet
date created:
2005-09-07T20:34:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:40:39Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Heliospheric-current-sheet.gif","width":866,"height":676}
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