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If that were true, a DC transformer could not work. It is the flowing current.

I suggest you go read how transformers work before you argue with people about how they do.

Their confusion is somewhat forgivable when authoritative-seeming but absolute garbage articles like this abound: https://unacademy.com/content/neet-ug/study-material/physics...

This isn’t quite not-even-wrong but it’s not far off being that bad. It’s like a page from that book of false logic that naughty fids have to read in Anathem.

Ah, I was thinking of a switched DC converter. My mistake.

What is a DC transformer?

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