Generating Electricity

The movement of a bar magnet into a wire coil attached to an ammeter is one of Englishman Michael Faraday's famous demonstrations. Here are the basic observations:

	Here the magnet is being pushed into the coil. The ammeter shows current induced in a positive direction.
	Now the magnet is stationary inside the coil. There is no current being produced in the coil, shown by the zero reading on the ammeter
	Finally the magnet is being pulled out. The ammeter shows current being induced in the opposite direction to before.

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