From: heathjohn2@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 at 5:18:52 PM UTC-4, R.T. wrote:   
   [[Mod. note -- 86 excessively-quoted lines snipped here.  -- jt]]   
   > Maybe if anyone can answer this following question with actual performed   
   > experimental results one could possibly shine a bit more light on the   
   > question...   
   >   
   > "If you replaced the static conducting disc that connects the two   
   > contacts to the external circuit in the Faraday wheel experiment with a   
   > single thin static conducting wire between the rim and axle contacts of   
   > the external circuit. And then rotated the magnetic field." Would a   
   > current be induced in the conducting wire?   
   >   
   > My bet is that yes, ...a current would be induced in this type of setup.   
   > Seeing as similar experiments for more than a century have yielded   
   > induction. Which if true then begs the question. Why when subjected to a   
   > moving magnetic field, would a large non moving conducting disc not   
   > conduct electricity, when a thin conducting wire does? Is it possible   
   > that a current is induced but not measured because the resistance of the   
   > static faraday disc is much greater than that of a thin wire.   
      
   It seems I heard someone else say this , ha. One way I found to   
   think of it is a magnetic field has no effect on a charge , electron.   
      
   [[Mod. note -- This statement is only true for a STATIONARY charge.   
   A magnetic field clearly does affect a moving charge.   
      
   (Here "stationary" and "moving" are defined with respect to the   
   inertial frame in which the magnetic field is measured.)   
   -- jt]]   
      
   Only a change in a magnetic field , delta b , will effect a charge.   
   If the magnet has the north or south pole facing the disk the   
   magnetic field is not changing when spinning or not spinning. If   
   the magnet is tipped 90 degrees so the the north is up and south   
   pole is down then spinning the magnetic will have a great effect   
   on the electrons in the copper disk as the magnetic field is now   
   changing from north to south.   
      
   If this is true then why would just spinning the copper disk cause   
   electrons to move in the disk as the magnetic field is constant as   
   stated before. For this I will pass the puck to someone else as I   
   do not know the answer to this question.   
      
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