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Past exam of the physics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2014 Paper 1 E15 b Solution by
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Faraday's law relates induced electromotive force to the rate of change of magnetic flux linkage. For a coil with turns and a consistent right-hand orientation,Flux can change through field variation or circuit motion. Lenz's law is the minus sign: the induced current's field opposes the flux change, consistent with energy conservation. It opposes the change rather than necessarily opposing the original field.
For a linear fixed-geometry inductor, and the self-induced electromotive force is . The passive terminal voltage drop is instead . The stored magnetic energy isInductance is measured in henries. Transformers use mutual inductance: changing one winding's current induces an electromotive force in another.
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