On 15 Jan, 09:54, Michael Coslo wrote:
art wrote:
We all know that when a generator produces alternating electricity,
it produces it with a rotational movement only. At no time does the
generater move backwards and forwards.

Hate to rain on the parade, but a fully function generator can be built
using exclusivley forward and backward motion. No rotation needed.

* * * * The simplest commercial application of this is the "Faraday Flashlight,
which charges a supercapacitor *by strictly linear back and forth
movement of it's generator.

Even a loudspeaker is a linear generator.

see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_Flashlight

* * * * *- 73 d eMike N3LI -

The bottom line is that the angular position of the inherrent dipole
at any point
reflects the amount of kinetic energy available in a magnetic fiels at
that particular point.
Whereas, at all points the angular position of the multitude of
vectors is not the same.
This being contrary to DC flow where the inherrent dipoles are aligned
in unison with two instead of three degrees of freedom as with an
alternating current. It is this subtle difference which is causing
such confusion on this newsgroup which can only be visuallised by the
newsgroup when all are assumed to have only two degrees of freedom.
Good thing is that even with what you are referring to you have
identified the three degrees of movement which others cannot get a
handle on with respect to alternating current.
Best regards
Art Unwin KB9MZ....XG