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Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Magnetic Fields and Compass Orientation

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulate the creation of an induced magnetic field through the use of a simple electric circuit. An interactive demonstration is included.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wilhelm Weber

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out more about German physicist Wilhelm Weber, who developed and enhanced a variety of devices for sensitively detecting and measuring magnetic fields and electrical currents.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Electric and Magnetic Forces

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify examples of electric and magnetic forces.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Magnetic Shunt

For Students 9th - 10th
Magnetic shunts are often used to adjust the amount of flux in the magnetic circuits found in most electrical motors. (Java tutorial)
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wimshurst Machine 1880

For Students 9th - 10th
In the modern world, virtually everyone is familiar with electricity as an accessible, essential form of energy. In electricity's earlier days, scientists used the buildup and release of static electricity.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: James Watt

For Students 9th - 10th
The Scottish instrument maker and inventor James Watt had a tremendous impact on the shape of modern society. His improvements to the steam engine were a significant factor in the Industrial Revolution, and when the Watt engine was...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Pixii Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
This "magneto-electric machine" was the first to turn motion into electricity. (Java tutorial)
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Interactive
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Transmission Lines

For Students 9th - 10th
Electricity goes through some ups and downs on its way from the power plant to your house. See how it works in this interactive activity.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

For Students 9th - 10th
William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, was one of the most eminent scientists of the nineteenth century and is best known today for inventing the international system of absolute temperature that bears his name. He made contributions to...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Nikola Tesla

For Students 9th - 10th
Awarded more than 100 patents over the course of his lifetime, Nikola Tesla was a man of considerable genius and vision. He was reportedly born at exactly midnight during an electrical storm, an intriguing beginning for a man who would...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Magnetic Pendulums

For Students 9th - 10th
See how electricity and magnetism interact with this activity. Activity has students creating a current by swinging a copper coil through a magnetic field. The copper coil will start a second coil swinging as well.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Current Flow

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial illustrates how the flow of water through a system of pipes can be used to understand the flow of current through an electric circuit.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Dc Motor

For Students 9th - 10th
Electric motors turn electricity into motion by exploiting electromagnetic induction.
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Interactive
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Wheatstone Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This circuit is most commonly used to determine the value of an unknown resistance to an electrical current.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Sulfur Globe 1660

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 17th century, German scientist Otto von Guericke built and carried out experiments with a sulfur globe that produced static electricity.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Claude Shannon

For Students 9th - 10th
Claude Shannon was a mathematician and electrical engineer whose work underlies modern information theory and helped instigate the digital revolution. He was the first person to recognize how Boolean algebra could be used to great...
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Article
Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: What Is a Bus Room?

For Students 9th - 10th
The MagLab's bus tunnel has an aluminum track, but it doesn't carry passengers: it carries electricity, up to 56 megawatts of it.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Capacitor

For Students 9th - 10th
A capacitor is similar to a battery in that both store electrical energy. But a capacitor can't actually produce new electrons; it only stores them.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Barlow's Wheel

For Students 9th - 10th
English mathematician Peter Barlow devised an instrument in 1822 that built on advances from earlier in the century (including the invention the battery) to create a very early kind of electric motor.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Oersted's Compass

For Students 9th - 10th
Recreate the discovery by Hans Christian Oersted about the relationship between electricity and magnetism in this very simple experiment.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Felix Bloch (1905 1983)

For Students 9th - 10th
Physicist Felix Bloch developed a non-destructive technique for precisely observing and measuring the magnetic properties of nuclear particles. He called his technique "nuclear induction," but nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) soon became...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Paul Lauterbur

For Students 9th - 10th
Chemist Paul Lauterbur pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for medical imaging. He developed a technique, now known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in the early 1970s that involves the introduction of gradients in...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Magnets

For Students 7th - 9th
A module that uses pictures, videos, reading passages, and review question to go over what a magnet and magnetic pole are, and how magnetic force is related to magnetic field. This site may require free registration to access all...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Zeeman Effect 1896

For Students 9th - 10th
Most of us have seen the rainbow-hued breakdown of the composition of light. Light is of course a form of energy. A magnetic field changes the behavior of light- a phenomenon known as the Zeeman effect.

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