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I don't like to be a "flamer" but this paper propagates the pernicious
idea (common in engineering circles) that Faraday induction results from
the "cutting of magnetic field lines" by a conductor. (another bastard
offspring of the reification of static fields).
The correct, basic physics is that Faraday induced emfs result from:
1) the Q*VxB force of a magnetic field on a moving charge (called "the
generator principle" when Q is a conduction electron in a moving wire),
and/or
2) the electric field which is sourced by a time changing magnetic field,
as described by Curl E = -dB/dt.
1) requires that (in the observer's frame) a conductor is moving where
there exists a magnetic field;
2) requires that (in the observer's frame) the magnetic field vector is
changing in time at some fixed space positions.
"Cutting B lines" has nothing to do with anything and leads only to
confusion.
Bob