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Microphones are used to convert sound into electrical signals.

A microphone has 3 parts to it. A diaphragm, a magnet, and an inductor (a coil of wire). The diaphragm and the magnet are attached to each other, while the inductor is coiled around the magnet. Since sound is a pressure wave, the pressure wave moves the diaphragm back and forth. The magnet which is attached to it also moves back and forth in and out of the inductor coil. The motion of the magnet through the coil changes the strength of the magnetic field at the inductor and this causes an electrical current to flow in the inductor.

So it is not the magnet itself that converts the sound into electrical signals, it is a 3 step process.

  1. Diaphragm turns pressure waves into motion
  2. Magnet turns the motion into a changing magnetic field
  3. Inductor turns the changing magnetic field into an electric current.
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