The purpose of this lab was power generation. Faraday’s Law states that changing magnetic fluxes through coiled wires generate electricity (currents and voltage). The greater the change in magnetic flux, the greater will be in the generated voltage. In this lab, we had to shake a flash light, which had a magnet, that traveled back and forth through a coil of wires. The faster the flashlight was shaken, the greater the generated voltage. Our task was to find the number of shakes of the generator, in a thirty second time interval, and the voltages that the generator created. We shook the flashlight six times to collect the data. These were the results:
The results prove that the greater you shake the device, the greater the voltage that the coils generated.