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The electromagnetic phenomena we have discussed so far are those caused by currents which are unvarying in size and direction, resulting in steady magnetic fields. If the current is allowed to change in any way which causes a variation in the magnetic field with time, new phenomena appear which are classed under the heading of electromagnetic induction. These phenomena were first discovered by Faraday and shortly afterward, independently, by the American scientist Joseph Henry (1797).
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Marshall, J.S., Pounder, E.R., Stewart, R.W. (1967). Electromagnetic Induction. In: Physics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81613-2_37
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