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Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Real Simple Motor

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Arbor Scientific

This simple Homopolar Motor shows how moving charges (an electric current) experience a force when they move through a magnetic field. When the wire is in place, current flows from the battery’s positive terminal, through the wire, radially through the magnet, and into the battery’s negative terminal.

This post was posted in CoolStuff Newsletters, Electricity and was tagged with torque, Simplest Motor, Homopolar

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