simple electric motor.doc

Simple electric motor Experiment purpose: We need make a simple electric motor by ourselves. In order to training the ability of self-study and the spirit of team-work. Experiment principle: An electric motor uses the attraction and repelling properties of magnets to create motion. An electric motor contains two magnets: a permanent magnet and a temporary magnet. The temporary magnet is a special magnet, called an electromagnet. It is created by passing an electric current through a wire. The permanent magnet has a magnetic field all the time, but the electromagnet only has a magnetic field when current is flowing through the wire. The strength of the electromagnet’s magnet field can be increased by increasing the current through the wire, or by forming the wire into muitiple loops. Experiment materials: Battery holder 2. Ceramic disk magnet 3. Magnet wire 4.safety pines 5. Two batteries (AAA) 6. Wood block 7. A knife 8. Screws 9. Drawing pin Experiment procedure: Measure out 4 inchs of magnet wire, and from that point on, begin winding your magnet wire 20 times around the AAA battery or ballpoint pen. Cut the wire with the wire cutters, leaving about 2 inches free at each end. Carefully slide the loops of the wire off the ballpoint pen. To warp the loops of so that they stay bunched together and form a tight coil. Warp each free end of wire around the loops of coil two times in the 3 o’clock and 9 o’ clock posions. The free ends of the magnet wire should form a straight line through the coil. The free ends will be the axle upon which your electricmagnet spins Using a sharp knife, strip off the insulating materials on the free end. Using the drawing pin to fix the magnet on the wood block. Near to the magnet, we need use two safety pins to make an axle support so that the coil can stable to rotate. Each should look like a loop wire with two legs. To fix the battery holder and and put two batteries in the battery holder. Attach the wires from the battery holder