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Q.What do you mean by electromagnetic induction? State Faraday's law of induction.

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Electromagnetic induction is the phenomenon, discovered experimentally by Faraday (and independently by Joseph Henry) in 1831, in which an emf -- and, in a closed circuit, a corresponding current -- is produced whenever the magnetic flux linked with a circuit changes with time. The change can arise in several distinct ways: a magnet moving relative to a stationary coil, a coil moving relative to a stationary magnet, a nearby current-carrying coil's own current changing, or (more generally) any change in the circuit's own area, orientation, or the field strength through it.

Faraday's First Law (qualitative) states: whenever the magnetic flux linked with a closed circuit changes, an emf is induced in it; if a conductor cuts across field lines, an emf is likewise induced between its ends. Faraday's Second Law (quantitative) states that the magnitude of this induced emf equals the rate of change of the linked flux: for a coil of n turns, e=−ndΦBdte=-n\frac{d\Phi_B}{dt}, where the minus sign (from Lenz's law) fixes the emf's direction, and in SI units e is in volts while Φ\Phi is in weber. [!ANSWER] EMI is the induction of emf by a changing magnetic flux; quantitatively, e=−ndΦdte=-n\frac{d\Phi}{dt}.

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