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.
In: Planetary Science
The generator has a coppercoil or a permanent magnet spinning. Another coppercoil around it then experiences a rotating magnetic field.
Due to the law of induction a changing magnetic field causes a “whirl” of electrical field around it. This is then basically captured as a voltage in the second coil.
In laymen term you basically make a magnetic swirl/eddy and electrons want to follow it so they start going in circles.
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