clc //to show that for frequency <10^9 Hz ,a sample of silicon will act like a good conductor sigma=200 //in mhos/m omega=2*%pi*10^9 epsilon0=8.85*10^-12 //permittivity in free space epsilon=12*epsilon0 sigma1=sigma/(omega*epsilon) //sigma1=sigma/(omega*epsilon) disp("sigma1="+string(sigma1)+"unitless") //if sigma/(omega*epsilon) is greater than 1 , silicon is a good conductor at frequency <10^9 Hz //to calculate penetration depth f=10^6 //frequency in Hz muo=4*%pi*10^-7 //permeability of free space sigma=200 del=sqrt(2/(2*%pi*f*muo*sigma)) disp("penetration depth is del="+string(del)+"m")