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Moving Magnetic Flux and Electromagnetic Induction

Allan Walstad

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Magnetic flux can move, and moving magnetic flux is associated with induced electric fields. Where there are multiple sources of flux, the induced electric field is the vector resultant of the induced fields attributable to the fluxes acting individually; it is not necessarily associated with the resultant magnetic field. The key insight is that flux can move through regions in which the magnetic field itself vanishes, much as electric charge can move (as electric current) through a region in wh...

Submitted: August 7, 2026Subjects: Physics; Physics

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Magnetic flux can move, and moving magnetic flux is associated with induced electric fields. Where there are multiple sources of flux, the induced electric field is the vector resultant of the induced fields attributable to the fluxes acting individually; it is not necessarily associated with the resultant magnetic field. The key insight is that flux can move through regions in which the magnetic field itself vanishes, much as electric charge can move (as electric current) through a region in which the net charge density is zero. For this reason, moving flux can account for the induced emf around a long solenoid in which the current is changing. It also accounts for unipolar induction, and this account is testable.


Source: arXiv:2608.05440v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05440v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05440v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05440v1

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