Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20161126183941/@comment-28288412-20161223195106

Phantomlink959 wrote:

You know those flashlights you charge by shaking them? Same principle. You've got a magnet inside of a copper coil, when the magnet moves inside the coil the copper (a metal which is not usually magnetic) becomes electrified, which charges the battery.

I mean, that's one example, but moving magnets inside copper coils is how all of the electricity used by people is generated (near enough anyway). The only thing different about it is the source moving the magnets.

As for electromagnetism, I'm afraid I can't help much there. As much as I would've loved to go into physics, my mathematical skill was insufficient for that career path.