How Do Eddy Currents Form in Transformers?

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someone knows how eddy currents in transformers are produced? by friction , resistance or heat transfer?
i mean the classical example is the wheel that is braked between the poles of an electromagnet, but how this applies to a transformer where there is exactly the opossed, a fixed conductor and variable magnetic field

(btw, english is not my native , so i always thought eddy currents was named because a scientist named eddy, just todays little discovery )
 
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japam said:
someone knows how eddy currents in transformers are produced? by friction , resistance or heat transfer?

Yes,*someone* quite possibly knows.Eddy currents ,namely in ferromagnetic core,aren't produced by "friction ,resistance or by heat transferr".
They are produced by alternating magnetic field by Faradey's law of Electromagnetic induction.

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