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Tag Archives: iron filings

What is a Magnet?

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Arbor Scientific

In this investigation, students will first experiment with an ordinary bar magnet and describe its effects on a compass and a tube of iron filings. The second part of the lab challenges students to create a temporary magnet out of the tube of iron filings, and show that it is magnetic using the compass.

This post was posted in Labs, Electricity & Magnetism and was tagged with magnet, iron filings, compass
Magnetic Fields around Magnets

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Arbor Scientific

Students will make observations of bar and horseshoe magnets, using iron filings or magnetic chips to map the field. The filings will be close together where the field is strong, and farther apart where it is weak. Lines will form, following the lines of the field, from the north pole to the south.

This post was posted in Labs, Electricity & Magnetism and was tagged with iron filings, magnetic fields, magnets, poles

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