So I was on a train and got curious how waterwheels and wind turbines and everything of the sort make electricity so like any normal person would I searched it up. And on google I kid you not all the responses were “it spins the generator making electricity” like what am I dumb or does to at make no sence and explains nothing please help.
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When you stir a spoon of nesquick into milk, you will see the swirling of the chocolate into the milk. Turn the spoon sideways and you’ll feel and see the milk hitting the spoon, imparting a force to it.
The same thing is happening with electromagnetic fields in a generator. You turn a generator shaft and the shaft (stator) magnetic coils create a swirl of electromagnetic fields, which are captured by the stationary coils on the outside of the motor (stator) and turned into electricity.
Lots of different ways to do it in varying geometric forms to maximise efficiency of energy transfer but a generator is a mechanical to electrical energy conversion machine that uses magnets and copper coils to achieve that conversion.
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