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An inductor is a passive electronic component that stores energy in the form of a magnetic field. When current flowing through an inductor changes, the changing magnetic field induces a voltage that opposes the change in current according to Lenz's Law. Inductors are made of coils of wire wrapped around cores and block alternating current signals while allowing direct current to pass. They work by creating an opposing magnetic field from the changing current in the coil that generates an opposing voltage.

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An inductor is a passive electronic component that stores energy in the form of a magnetic field. When current flowing through an inductor changes, the changing magnetic field induces a voltage that opposes the change in current according to Lenz's Law. Inductors are made of coils of wire wrapped around cores and block alternating current signals while allowing direct current to pass. They work by creating an opposing magnetic field from the changing current in the coil that generates an opposing voltage.

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Let me introduce you to another important component in the field of


Electronics and Electricals, the Inductor. Inductor is a passive two-
terminal component that temporarily stores energy in the form of a
magnetic field. It is usually called as a coil. The main property of an
inductor is that it opposes any change in current.

Inductor

According to the Faraday’s law of Electromagnetic induction, When


the current flowing through an inductor changes, the time-varying
magnetic field induces a voltage in the conductor. According to lens
law, the direction of induced EMF opposes the change in current that
created it. Hence, induced EMF is opposite to the voltage applied
across the coil. This is the property of an inductor.

The following figure shows how an inductor looks like.

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An inductor blocks any AC component present in a DC signal. The


inductor is sometimes wrapped upon a core, for example a ferrite
core. It then looks as in the figure below.

The following figure shows an inductor with various parts labelled.

Symbols

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The symbols of various types of inductors are as given below.

Storage of Energy

One of the Basic properties of electromagnetism is that the current


when flows through an inductor, a magnetic field gets created
perpendicular to the current flow. This keeps on building up. It gets
stabilized at some point, which means that the inductance won’t build
up after that. When the current stops flowing, the magnetic field gets
decreased.

This magnetic energy gets turned into electrical energy. Hence


energy gets stored in this temporarily in the form of magnetic field.

Working of an Inductor

According to the theory of Electromagnetic Induction, any varying


electric current, flowing in a conductor, produces a magnetic field
around that, which is perpendicular to the current. Also, any varying
magnetic field, produces current in the conductor present in that field,

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whereas the current is perpendicular to the magnetic field.

Now, if we consider an inductor which is made up of a conducting coil


and when some current passes through the inductor, a magnetic field
is created perpendicular to it. The following figure indicates an
inductor with magnetic field around it.

Now, here we have a varying magnetic field, which creates some


current through the conductor. But this current is produced such that
it opposes the main current, which has produced the magnetic field.

If this current is named as Im which means the current produced due


to the magnetic field and the magnetic field is indicated by β, the
following figure indicates it.

This opposing current gains strength with the varying magnetic field,
which gains energy by the input supply frequency. Hence as the input
current becomes more and more AC with high frequency, the

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resulting opposing current also gains its strength in opposite direction


to the very cause producing it. Now, this opposing current, tries to
stop the high frequency AC to pass through the inductor, which
means “blocking of AC”.

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