Recent content by secondfret

It's not an advantage, it's a limitation :) Forgive me for being purposely vague

Oh you know, glory, riches and solving the energy crisis. But I guess you've brought me back down to Earth. Let's look at this one more way. Forgive my ignorance if this is poses the exact same problem. This time I have a large coil in which small magnets are attached to every inch of the...

Ok, you know those flashlights that you shake to charge the battery? I'm no physics major, but I get the basic idea. The magnet is passed through the coil, creating an electrical current. So here's my question: Imagine I changed the structure of the coil a bit. If I take a series of magnets...