The Most Common Way to Generate Electricity Is

question 35

Multiple Choice

The most common way to generate electricity is

• A) batteries.
• B) generating static electricity and trapping it in a series of wires.
• C) moving a coil of wire through a fixed magnetic field.
• D) transduction.
• E) the direct capture of electrons (i.e., "catching lightning in a bottle").

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