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The iron core is there to provide a path for the magnetic flux to link both the primary and the secondary with as little flux as possible linking only one of the windings.

The cross-section area of the core determines how much magnetic flux there is, because transformer iron has a fixed maximum flux density, usually 1 Weber per square metre.

The amount of flux determines how many volts per turn there are on both windings.

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