A bar magnet, attached to an oscillating system, passes through a coilperiodically, generating a series of emf pulses. A novel method is describedfor the quantitative verification of Faraday's law which eliminates all errorsassociated with angular measurements, thereby revealing delicate features ofthe underlying mechanics. When electromagnetic damping is activated byshort-circuiting the coil, a distinctly linear decay of oscillation amplitudeis surprisingly observed. A quantitative analysis reveals an interestinginterplay of the electromagnetic and mechanical time scales.
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