Thursday 6 July 2017

Making a simple electric motor - sexto

I was looking at an activity in the text book about making a very simple electric motor and just could not work out how it could possibly work using the instructions in the book.  Basically, what is is the text book is impossible - it has wires connected to either end of a 9V battery for a start (the terminals are actually both on the same end), it does not show the magnet (rather important for something that needs electricity and magnetism) and it says the wire needs to be coiled 30 times round but only shows 5 coils.....TERRIBLE! 

So I looked up what it should actually look like and found this beautiful description of how to make the motor that should actually work.  The website is from the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and I will have a go at making it once I have bought some of the copper wire.


Link to web page:  Instructions for making a simple electric motor

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