

![]() | Demonstrate and explain magnetic field shielding This simple experiment shows you how to demonstrate magnetic shielding and explains how it works. | ||
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![]() | High-Ampere Magnetism! There are a number of science museum exhibits which require many tens of
amperes of electric current in a thick cable to generate strong magnetism.
One example is a raft of compasses with a 200-amp cable running through
the center of the raft. Or, three 100-amp cables with three-phase AC
powering them, where the resulting field rotates and can spin a conductive
object by induction | ||
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![]() | How to build a simple electric generator ![]() This is an AC electric generator which is capable of lighting up a tiny incandescent light bulb. The generator is made up of a hollow-ended cardboard box with a nail through the center, many turns of copper wire wound around the box, and four larger magnets clamped around the nail. When the nail and magnets are spun fast by hand, the little light bulb lights up dimly.
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![]() | How to build a simple electricity generator ![]() This is an AC electric generator which is capable of lighting up a tiny incandescent light bulb. The generator is made up of a hollow-ended cardboard box with a nail through the center, many turns of copper wire wound around the box, and four larger magnets clamped around the nail. When the nail and magnets are spun fast by hand, the little light bulb lights up dimly. | ||
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![]() | Illustrate sea-floor spreading and subduction by building a model ![]() This report describes how to build a model of the outer 300 km (180 miles) of the Earth that can be used to develop a better understanding of the principal features of plate tectonics, including sea-floor spreading, the pattern of magnetic stripes frozen into the sea floor, transform faulting, thrust faulting, subduction, and volcanism. | ||
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![]() | How to build your own electric motor ![]() This home page features award-winning, easy-to-build, and inexpensive electric motors.
If you are looking for a simple science project, or if you wish to learn about electricity, magnetism, and electric motors, this web site has it all! Including assembly instructions, a section devoted to how these motors work, and I even provide all parts necessary to build them! The reed switch motor is the e | ||
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![]() | Does the number of turns of wire in an electromagnet affect its strength? ![]() The purpose of this experiment was to find out if the number of wire wraps will effect the amount of iron filings an electromagnet picks up. | ||
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![]() | How to build a wind turbine generator ![]() These plans are for the construction of a machine called a Savonius wind turbine. Wind turbines come in two general types, those whose main turning shaft is horizontal and points into the wind, and those with a vertical shaft that points up. The Savonius is an example of the vertical axis type. It consists of two simple scoops that catch the wind and cause the shaft to turn. | ||
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![]() | Build a model to demonstrate how earthquakes are caused ![]() The apparatus consists of a heavy object that is dragged steadily with an elastic cord. Although pulled with a constant velocity, the heavy object repeatedly slides and then stops. A small vibration sensor, attached to a computer display, graphically monitors this intermittent motion. | ||
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![]() | How to measure gravitational forced between masses ![]() This page presents a "basement science" experiment which reveals the universality of gravitation by demonstrating the gravitational attraction between palpable objects on the human scale. The experiment deliberately uses only the crudest and most commonplace materials, permitting anybody who's so inclined to perform it. Einstein's 1915 theory of General Relativity explains gravitation as spacetime | ||
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