Does the Skin Effect cause charge to accumulate on the surface of a conductor?

In summary, the skin effect refers to the phenomenon where alternating current (AC) tends to flow near the surface of a conductor rather than uniformly throughout its volume, resulting in a concentration of current at the outer layers. This effect does not inherently cause charge accumulation on the surface; rather, it is a consequence of the changing electromagnetic fields within the conductor. While there may be surface charges created due to AC, the skin effect itself is primarily about the distribution of current rather than charge accumulation.
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berkeman said:
Yeah, agreed. OP is now on a short leash in this thread...
no Berkemann I'm not in a corner, but I've already said that I want to do some tests with many different conductive objects, so I'll start doing the tests
 
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It's a bit lenghty to do it here in the forum, but why don't you just try to solve Maxwell's equations for the field given an (infinitely long for simplicity) conducting cylindrical wire? You find a thorough discussion in A. Sommerfeld, Lectures on theoretical physics, vol. 3.
 
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