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  2. Electromagnet - Wikipedia

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    To concentrate the magnetic field in an electromagnet, the wire is wound into a coil with many turns of wire lying side by side. [2] The magnetic field of all the turns of wire passes through the center of the coil, creating a strong magnetic field there. [2] A coil forming the shape of a straight tube (a helix) is called a solenoid. [1] [2]

  3. Faraday's law of induction - Wikipedia

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    Faraday's law of induction. Faraday's experiment showing induction between coils of wire: The liquid battery (right) provides a current which flows through the small coil (A), creating a magnetic field. When the coils are stationary, no current is induced. But when the small coil is moved in or out of the large coil (B), the magnetic flux ...

  4. Newman's energy machine - Wikipedia

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    Newman's Energy Machine was a DC motor which the inventor, Joseph Newman, claimed to produce mechanical power exceeding the electrical power being supplied to it. In 1979, Newman attempted to patent the device, but it was rejected by the United States Patent Office as being a perpetual motion machine . [ 1 ]

  5. Homopolar motor - Wikipedia

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    The screw and magnet spin, with the screw tip acting as a bearing. A homopolar motor is a direct current electric motor with two magnetic poles, the conductors of which always cut unidirectional lines of magnetic flux by rotating a conductor around a fixed axis so that the conductor is at right angles to a static magnetic field.

  6. Solenoid (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, a solenoid is a device that converts electrical energy to mechanical energy, using an electromagnet formed from a coil of wire. The device creates a magnetic field [1] from electric current, and uses the magnetic field to create linear motion. [2][3][4] In electromagnetic technology, a solenoid is an actuator assembly with a ...

  7. Electromagnetic induction - Wikipedia

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    Electromagnetic induction. Alternating electric current flows through the solenoid on the left, producing a changing magnetic field. This field causes, by electromagnetic induction, an electric current to flow in the wire loop on the right. Electromagnetic or magnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (emf) across an ...

  8. Oersted's law - Wikipedia

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    Compass and wire apparatus showing Ørsted's experiment (video [1]) In electromagnetism, Ørsted's law, also spelled Oersted's law, is the physical law stating that an electric current creates a magnetic field. [2] This was discovered on 21 April 1820 by Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), [3][4] when he noticed that the ...

  9. Free energy - Wikipedia

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    Free-energy relationship, a relationship in physical organic chemistry. Principle of minimum energy, a thermodynamic formulation based on the second law. Thermodynamic free energy, the energy in a physical system that can be converted to do work, including: Gibbs free energy. Landau free energy (also known as grand potential)