How does a generator transforms gasoline into electricity?

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How does a generator transforms gasoline into electricity?

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Imagine the engine of a car. It turns gasoline into a rotary movement, which can be applied to the wheels and to drive the car forward.

Now imagine that instead of the wheels you connect the gasoline engine to a generator. The gasoline engine now turns the generator which in turn generates electricity.

What is a generator you ask? Well, imagine an electric engine. The electric engine normally takes electricity to create a magnetic field in different electric coils (wires wrapped around a metal core). The electric engine also has fixed magnets inside. The magnetfield of the coils now attract or repell the magnets and again a rotary motion is generated.

The same setup can be used the other way around. Instead of applying electricity to the motor you can manually rotate the magnets. Now as the magnets rotate past the electric coils the magnetic field of the magnets induce electricity in the electric coils.

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