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[dvandom]

"Such a simple thing. August would understand it. My mother could understand it. Magnet back and forth, make electricity. Magnet and coil move, make electricity. Magnet and coil sit there, nothing gets made." - Grantville Gazette vol 7

Having just finished up Faraday's Law for the semester, I'd like to say...SUUUUUUURE. It sounds simple, but you'd be surprised how simple it ISN'T. :)

Comments

[stankow.livejournal.com]

Simple doesn't mean easy. Archimedes said, in reference to the principle of the lever, "Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the Earth." That's simple. Finding the place to stand, however, isn't easy.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's not even simple. There's ways to make electricity without moving either (change area, change number of loops, pass something between them that blocks magnetic fields). :)

Mind you, the goal of physics is to be simple...once you understand it. Complicated already exists, it's all around us.

[foomf.livejournal.com]

That's cheating though. Moving the magnetic field is the same thing as moving the magnet as far as the coils are concerned. Changing area or number of loops? You mean, like, with a rotary switch and a multi-coil on the rotor side? That's the same as moving the coil (since the coil's own magnetic field, weak though it be, changes with the addition of the additional wire that gets switched in and out.)

Or is it just pushing around the ether. I forget.

Anyway, you should look at this geekery here, (http://community.livejournal.com/city_of_heroes/1695024.html) as it pertains to one of your obsessions.