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Lenz's law: Induced current is always antiparallel to the motion that's causing it.

As a copper disk goes through a magnetic field in one direction, the magnetic field induces a current on the disc which is in such a direction as to create an electric field on the disc in the direction opposite its motion. Reeks of Newton doesn't it?

The electric force is therefore always slowing the disc down, otherwise known as damping.

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Why the oscillations of a copper disc in a magnetic field are are lightly damped?

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