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A diagram showing a magnet being moved upward toward a conducting ring, with magnetic field lines passing through the ring. The induced current in the ring creates a magnetic field that opposes the magnet's approach, illustrating Faraday's and Lenz's laws of electromagnetism. Diagram of Faraday's magnetic induction experiment showing two coils wrapped around a ring, with a switch labeled S in the primary circuit and a compass needle labeled M in the secondary circuit to detect induced current.
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Faraday’s law of induction: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: Digital Commons at URI - Motional EMF. Faraday's law with applications (PDF). Aug 12, 2026
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Add new Web site: Digital Commons at URI - Motional EMF. Faraday's law with applications (PDF). Dec 26, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - University Physics Volume 2 - Faraday’s Law. Nov 19, 2025
Add new Web site: Iowa Pressbooks - Faraday’s Law of Induction: Lenz’s Law. Oct 07, 2025
Add new Web site: Engineering LibreTexts - Faraday's Law of Induction. Jul 19, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Conditions for the validity of Faraday?s law of induction and their experimental confirmation (PDF). Jan 31, 2025
Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Faraday's Law. Aug 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Faraday�s Law of Induction. Apr 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Illinois Institute of Technology - Faraday’s Law of Induction (PDF). Jan 14, 2024
Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Faraday�s Law of Induction: Lenz�s Law. Dec 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - What is Faraday's law? Aug 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Faraday's Law (PDF). Feb 18, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Louisville - Department of Physics - Faraday's Law of Induction. Feb 18, 2023
Add new Web site: LiveScience - What is Faraday's law of induction? Nov 17, 2022
Add new Web site: Openstax - College Physics 2e - Faraday’s and Lenz’s Law. Sep 09, 2022
Article revised and updated. Jul 11, 2022
Added new Web site: Hyperphysics - Faraday's Law. May 07, 2009
Article revised and updated. Sep 22, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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