Question

Electric guitars use "pickups" to translate a vibrating metal string into an electric current via electromagnetic induction. This process wouldn't work for nylon strings as nylon is an insulator and not a conductor.

True

False

Answer 1

This is True.

when the strings vibrate then the free electrons present inside the wire also move. In the guitar pickups a magnetic field is present in which these electrons move and experience lorrentz force.

Due to this force the electrons get accumulated at the ends of wire generating a potential or emf in the wire producing a current.

since nylon is an insulator it will not have such free electrons that can move under the Lorrentz force and hence no current will be induced