Faraday's laws

English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, one of the most prominent experimentalists of the 19th century. Largely self-educated, Faraday is best known for his discoveries about the relationship between electricity and magnetism, published in the series Experimental Researches on Electricity (1839-55), which formed the basis of the theory of electromagnetic behaviour.

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.