What happens in a generator between a magnet and coil?
leech98 asked:
When a magnet goes over a coil of wire in a generator the negative and positive ions clash and form electricity which can then be stored or used in some way. But what is this process called and what EXACTLY happens?
Tyrone
When a magnet goes over a coil of wire in a generator the negative and positive ions clash and form electricity which can then be stored or used in some way. But what is this process called and what EXACTLY happens?
Tyrone
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 pm
well the coil and the magnet get it on and make little electron babies. But on a serious note a magnetic field is almost like a flowing fluid going out the north pole and going back around the the south pole. When you revolve the coil imagine this fluid affecting the electrons one way and when the coil flips around the electrons are pushed the other way back and forth. Voltage is generated by the change in magnetic field passing through the center area of the coil. The faster this area changes or the faster the intensity of the magnetic field changes the larger the voltage generated. Voltage can be thought of as pressure pushing electrons in a wire.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Generator the next receiving atom which explains alternating current is induced induction is what the magnetic field current not great answer but the coil of wire is rotating through the best can do at 1015 richard.