Lenz's law qânun-e Lenz (#) Fr.: loi de Lenz The direction of an induced current is such as to oppose the cause producing it. The cause of the current may be the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field, or it may be the change of flux through a stationary circuit. Named after Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (1804-1865), German physicist, who published the law in 1834; → law. |