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Discuss Lenz's Law in terms of Faraday's Law and induced current (Requires website source)
Faraday's law: induced electrical current = (change in magnetic flux) / (change in time) / (total electrical resistance)
Faraday's law says that, not only do changes in position and current INDUCE other currents and magnetic field, but also their strengths depend also on the speed this was done. The idea here is that, if you CUT as much of the magnetic field as possible in as little time as possible, a current of specific strength is INDUCED. This often depends on the force you do use to accomplish this. In other words, the NEW current you create comes from the opposition (Lenz's law) to the force you supply as quickly as you can (Faraday's law = Lorentz law in reverse). This uses the same "right-hand-finger" convention mentioned earlier for the Lorentz Deflection, only here, you are "solving" for the INDUCED current instead of the deflection force. However, remember that even here, the RIGHT INDEX finger still points the direction of the induced current, and the RIGHT THUMB still points in the direction of the supplied force.