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Post 61 didn't mention anything about this scenario. Post 61 was about the circular "wiggling" acceleration.Buckethead said:So a wire accelerating though an inertial coil, or a coil accelerating past an inertial wire generate the same voltage? It was mentioned in post 61 that the two situations are not symmetrical,
No. In post 61 the coil wiggling will not immediately generate voltage while the wire wiggling will. No wiggling acceleration is equivalent to linear acceleration or uniform gravity. Please do not blindly copy-and-paste answers like this.Buckethead said:now I see what was meant was only the asymmetry between the two objects but this does not affect the outcome. Either one accelerating will generate the same voltage.
No! This is highly frustrating. Please go back and re read the earlier comments. Gravity is not equivalent to wiggling something in a circle! Do not confound the two. Nothing we discuss here alters the previous answer.Buckethead said:If this is the case, then this gets me back to an earlier post where moving a wire in a circle (without rotating it) in a magnetic field is the same as rotating the coil in the same plane and leaving the wire stationary. In both cases a voltage will be generated in the wire. So again, this must mean that moving the coil in a circle (accelerating it) must also move the field lines such that they are forced to cut across the wire. So again, it seems you can move a single field line in a circle, but you cannot rotate the field lines about themselves (which would happen if you rotated the magnet instead of the disk).