Experiments with magnets
Workshop for fans of physics
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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 showcasing several experiments. A few friends and I demonstrated the experiments with the neodymium magnets, making sure the students came away with a clear understanding. We found the ideas for our experiments among your customer projects and would like to introduce a few of the experiments below:We got the idea from your customer projects Gauss cannon
and The Launching Pad.
We used:
The customer project 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 project Swirling sphere.
We used:
- 20 disc magnets S-08-05-N
- 4 disc magnets S-03-03-N
- 1 Steel balls Ø 12,7 mm
This experiment was based on the customer project Aluminum Foil as Contact-Free Parachute.
We used:
- 1 sphere magnet K-19-C
You can find fascinating information about the discovery of magnetism, the history of magnets and how a compass works in our guide under the topic The History of Magnets.
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