GENERATOR EXPERIMENT: FARADAY’S LAW

The purpose of this lab was to test power generation using Faraday’s Law.

Faraday’s Law states that changing magnetic fluxes through coiled wires generate electricity (currents and voltage).

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To test this Law, we used a flashlight shake generator with a magnet inside that moves in and out of a coiled wire.

The generator was shaken for 30 seconds at different speeds for 5 trials.

    For my first trial I shook the generator fairly slowly, only shaking it 45 times and therefore creating a low voltage. The sum of the squares for the first trial was 4.72084. My final trial was the fastest at 150 shakes. The sum of the squares for this trial was very high at 138.1018.

I found that the faster the generator shook, the more current and therefore higher voltage was created.