5K10.27-Faraday’s Flashlight

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Instructor’s video

Description: This is a “Faraday’s Flashlight” as seen on TV.
A magnet moves up and down inside a coil of wire. Current is induced and forced into a capacitor (direction of the moving magnet does not matter).
The LED runs off the capacitor.

Equipment:

• Faraday Flashlight

Demonstration Procedure:

1. Shake the flashlight up and down fast for about a minute. Then turn it on.

Note: Not a very effective flashlight, but still a cool concept (and involves many elementary E&M principles).
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