In an experiment using a high-voltage electromagnetic induction device, different stones used in Egyptian megalithic sites reacted in dramatically different ways. Limestone showed a strong response, ...

“The device appeared to violate the conclusion that any conductor at rest with respect to Earth’s surface cannot generate power from its magnetic field,” Princeton’s Christopher Chyba added in a press ...

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This is a series of interactive lecture demonstrations with a theme of induction and Faraday's law, typically presented with a series of iClicker questions. Students predict the direction of current ...

Michael Faraday, a British scientist who was credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator—was born September 22, 1791, in the ...

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely ...