About Faraday's Law
Investigate Faraday's law and how a changing magnetic flux can produce a flow of electricity!
How to play Faraday's Law
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. Investigate Faraday's law and how a changing magnetic flux can produce a flow of electricity!
Questions & answers
- What is Faraday's Law?
- Faraday's Law is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. Investigate Faraday's law and how a changing magnetic flux can produce a flow of electricity!
- What can kids learn from Faraday's Law?
- It helps kids explore: explain what happens when the magnet moves through the coil at different speeds and how this affects the brightness of the bulb and the magnitude & sign of the voltage. explain the difference between moving the magnet through the coil from the right side versus the left side. explain the difference between moving magnet through the big coil versus the smaller coil.
- What age is Faraday's Law good for?
- It is designed for middle school (roughly ages 10–14) up to university, and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Faraday's Law free to play?
- Yes — Faraday's Law is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.