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if you take an electrical motor and force it to spin, you no longer have a motor, you now have a ________.
Electrical motors and generators are related by electromagnetic induction. A motor converts electrical energy to mechanical energy, but when a motor is forced to spin (mechanical input), it acts as a generator, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy (Faraday's law of induction: moving a conductor in a magnetic field induces an electric current). So forcing a motor to spin repurposes it as a generator.
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