
Experiments with magnets
Workshop for fans of physics
Online since: 09/09/2013, Number of visits: 409741
Orientation week for new students
Each year the last week of August we at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm welcome about 130 students interested in physics to our Master of Science in Engineering Physics. As part of a two-week welcome, we always come up with a program for the new students. This year the theme was magnetism.Our magnet workshop
For our workshop we created a booth with several experiments. A few friends and I demonstrated the experiments and made sure the students got the gist of it. We found ideas for our experiments among your customer applications. We'd like to introduce a few of the experiments as follows:We got the idea from your customer applications Gauss pistol
and The Launching Pad.
We used:
- 9 steel spheres
- 5 cube magnets W-12-N
The customer application The World's Simplest Electric Motor
inspired us to try this experiment.
We used:
- 1 disc magnet S-15-08-N
This experiment is based on our namesake project Levitating rod magnet.
We used:
- 10 rod magnets S-04-25-N
The inspiration was the namesake customer application Swirling sphere.
We used:
- 20 disc magnets S-08-05-N
- 4 disc magnets S-03-03-N
- 1 Steel spheres 13 mm
This experiment was based on the customer application Aluminum Foil as Contact-Free Parachute.
We used:
- 1 sphere magnet K-19-C
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