  In this article, it is pointed out that Faraday induction can be treated from
an untraditional, particle-based point of view. The electromagnetic fields of
Faraday induction can be calculated explicitly from approximate point-charge
fields derived from the Li\'enard-Wiechert expressions or from the Darwin
Lagrangian. Thus the electric fields of electrostatics, the magnetic fields of
magnetostatics, and the electric fields of Faraday induction can all be
regarded as arising from charged particles. Some aspects of electromagnetic
induction are explored for a hypothetical circuit consisting of point charges
which move frictionlessly in a circular orbit. For a small number of particles
in the circuit (or for non-interacting particles), the induced electromagnetic
fields depend upon the mass and charge of the current carriers while energy is
transferred to the kinetic energy of the particles. However, for an interacting
multiparticle circuit, the mutual electromagnetic interactions between the
particles dominate the behavior so that the induced electric field cancels the
inducing force per unit charge, the mass and charge of the individual current
carriers become irrelevant, and energy goes into magnetic energy.
