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Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Faraday Motor CoolStuff Newsletter

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Buzz Putnam

I constructed the do-it-yourself Faraday Motor with my students as a demonstration, just as the video instructs Their reaction was amazing! When linking the concepts of Electricity with Magnetism, I normally use pre-made motors and other conventional equipment that has been purchased or donated over the years. When I decided to create the "original" Faraday [...]

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Build a Faraday Motor with Your Students!

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dr. Joel Bryan

In 1820, Danish physicist/chemist Hans Christian Ørsted noticed that when current from his Voltaic pile was switched on and off, a compass needle placed near the wire deflected from true magnetic north. Within a few months of careful study, he deduced that a magnetic field circles a current-bearing wire.

This post was posted in CoolStuff Newsletters, Electricity, Magnetism and was tagged with magnetism, faraday motor, voltaic, electric motor

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