Faraday's law of induction
- Faraday's law of induction
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in physics, a quantitative relationship between a changing magnetic field and the electric field created by the change, developed on the basis of experimental observations made in 1831 by the English scientist Michael Faraday (
Faraday, Michael).
The phenomenon called electromagnetic induction was first noticed and investigated by Faraday; the law of induction is its quantitative expression. Faraday discovered that, whenever the magnetic field about an electromagnet was made to grow and collapse by closing and opening the electric circuit of which it was a part, an electric current could be detected in a separate conductor nearby. Moving a permanent magnet into and out of a coil of wire also induced a current in the wire while the magnet was in motion. Moving a conductor near a stationary permanent magnet caused a current to flow in the wire, too, as long as it was moving.
Faraday visualized a magnetic field as composed of many lines of induction, along which a small magnetic compass would point. The aggregate of the lines intersecting a given area is called the magnetic flux. The electrical effects were thus attributed by Faraday to a changing magnetic flux. Some years later the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (
Maxwell, James Clerk) proposed that the fundamental effect of changing magnetic flux was the production of an electric field, not only in a conductor (where it could drive an electric charge) but also in space even in the absence of electric charges. Maxwell formulated the mathematical expression relating the change in magnetic flux to the induced electromotive force (
E, or
emf). This relationship, known as Faraday's law of induction (to distinguish it from his laws of electrolysis), states that the magnitude of the
emf induced in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux that cuts across the circuit. If the rate of change of magnetic flux is expressed in units of webers per second, the induced
emf has units of volts. Faraday's law is one of the four Maxwell equations that define electromagnetic theory.
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