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What Is the Generator Effect?
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What Is the Generator Effect?

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What Is the Generator Effect?

We can induce voltage in a wire by moving a magnetic field relative to the wire.

What is it that makes a current move around a circuit?

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How can you induce potential difference across a current-carrying conductor? Pick all the options you think are correct.

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You can select multiple answers

What do we call it when we induce potential difference in a current-carrying conductor?

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What do you think might be another name for electromagnetic induction?

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The generator effect describes how we can generate a potential difference with electromagnetism. There are two ways this can be done.

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First, we can move a closed-circuit wire through a stationary magnetic field.

This generates a current through the wire!

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Secondly, we can move a bar magnet through a closed-circuit coil of wire.

This also generates a current through the wire! We will now look at an experiment that demonstrates this effect.

But first, can you remember what we use to measure the current in a circuit?

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What is the current, when the magnet is stationary?

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As the magnet moves further into the coil, what happens to the current reading on the ammeter?

A) Increases B) Decreases C) Stays the same

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What happens to the current reading on the ammeter when the magnet has moved fully into the coil and has stopped moving?

A) Positive B) Negative C) Back to zero

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As the magnet is moved back out of the coil, what happens to the current reading on the ammeter?

A) Positive B) Negative C) Zero

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As we move the magnet in and out of the coil of wire the ammeter reading changes.

As the magnet moves into the coil, the ammeter shows a positive current. As it moves out of the coil, the ammeter shows negative current. When the magnet is stationary, there is zero current.

This shows how a magnet moving in and out of a closed-circuit coil of wire generates current through the wire.

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