Faraday's laws

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Three laws of electromagnetic induction, and two laws of electrolysis, all proposed originally by English physicist Michael Faraday. The laws of induction are: (1) a changing magnetic field induces an electromagnetic force in a conductor; (2) the electromagnetic force is proportional to the rate of change of the field; and (3) the direction of the induced electromagnetic force depends on the orientation of the field. The laws of electrolysis are: (1) the amount of chemical change during electrolysis is proportional to the charge passing through the liquid; and (2) the amount of chemical change produced in a substance by a given amount of electricity is proportional to the electrochemical equivalent of that substance.

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