We recently had a transformer blow in our neighborhood and now my 3 year old is asking me how it works and I honestly don’t know. Can anyone electrical transformers?
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I think a more ELI5 response would be to compare it to something hot. If you have one piece of metal that is red hot, if you put it close to another piece of metal it will get warmed up too, but not as hot. You can figure out how hot to make the second piece of metal based off the distance between them, the material that makes it or other factors.
This is like how the magnetic field of the primary of a transformer transfers electricity to the secondary. It creates a magnetic field that induces another magnetic field on the secondary whose voltage is dependant on a variety of factors such as distance, number of turns in the wire that makes up the coil etc.
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