At first glance, this looks like a magic trick. The LEDs are sitting inside a large copper loop, but there are no visible wires connecting them to a power supply. So where is the power coming from? The answer is ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION. The large copper loop acts as a transmitting coil. When alternating current flows through it, it creates a changing magnetic field around and inside the loop. Now place a smaller receiving coil inside that changing magnetic field. According to Faraday's Law, a changing magnetic field passing through a coil induces a voltage: V = -N(dΦ/dt) That induced voltage can then be used to light an LED. This is why the individual LEDs don't need a physical electrical connection to the large coil. ⚡ Energy is being transferred through the magnetic field. The same basic principle appears in technologies such as: • Wireless phone chargers • Electric toothbrush chargers • RFID/NFC systems • Inductive sensors • Wireless power experiments And here's where it gets even more interesting. The transmitting coil can be combined with a capacitor to form a resonant LC circuit. Its resonant frequency is approximately: f = 1 / (2π√LC) Operating near resonance can make energy transfer much more effective. So this little LED demonstration actually introduces several important electronics concepts: 🔹 Faraday's Law 🔹 Electromagnetic induction 🔹 Inductive coupling 🔹 AC magnetic fields 🔹 LC resonance 🔹 Wireless power transfer Something that looks like a simple LED trick can teach quite a bit of electronics. 😁 Would you like us to BUILD our own low-voltage version here in CircuitWorks Lab? Comment “BUILD IT” if you want the schematic, component list, coil design, and step-by-step build. ⚡🔧 — CircuitWorks Lab BUILD • TEST • TROUBLESHOOT https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J5gkucexKxA