Create electricity with a magnet?

Question

I know that you can because Electricity and Magnetism are the same, and as you may already know if you wrap an electrically charged wire around a piece of metal it becomes magnetic, but if you wrap a plain wire around a magnet will it make electricity?

Answer 1

You have it partially correct. A magnetic field and electricity are not the same, but one can induce the other.

To answer your question, if you wrap a plain (say copper) wire around a magnet it will have the potential to create an electrical current, but the magnet has to move past the wire. In essence, the magent does not act like a battery. It can't just sit there next to the wire and generate a current. For example, if a magnet runs back and forth through a coil of wire, an electrical current will be generated. Once the magnet stops moving, the electrical current stops.