moving-coil microphone
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A device in which sound waves cause a diaphragm to vibrate, making an attached coil cut the magnetic field lines of a fixed magnet and inducing a potential difference.
A device that is a loudspeaker run backwards, in which the physics is the generator effect rather than the motor effect.
Topics that use moving-coil microphone
- Microphones (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
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