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Berls, Rob; Ruiz, Michael J. – Physics Education, 2018
The classic demonstration illustrating Lenz's law by dropping a magnet through a copper pipe is presented using household aluminum foil right out of the box. Then comes the surprise. The teacher presents an aluminum foil cylinder with a missing lengthwise slice (cut before class). Will the demonstration still work? Students are amazed at the…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Science Experiments
Duffy, Andrew – Physics Teacher, 2018
This paper describes a pictorial approach to Lenz's law that involves following four steps and drawing three pictures to determine the direction of the current induced by a changing magnetic flux. Lenz's law accompanies Faraday's law, stating that, for a closed conducting loop, the induced emf (electromotive force) created by a changing magnetic…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Principles, Magnets, Motion
Pili, Unofre; Violanda, Renante – Physics Teacher, 2019
In introductory physics laboratories, spring constants are traditionally measured using the static method. The dynamic method, via vertical spring-mass oscillator, that uses a stopwatch in order to measure the period of oscillations is also commonly employed. However, this time-measuring technique is prone to human errors and in this paper we…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Nuryantini, Ade Yeti; Sawitri, Asti; Nuryadin, Bebeh Wahid – Physics Education, 2018
This study demonstrated that the constant average speed of a dynamic car could be measured and calculated using the smartphone magnetometer. The apparatus setup was built using a dynamic car, a linear track up to 1.50 m, a bunch of magnets, and a smartphone magnetometer application. The smartphone magnetometer application, 'Physics Toolbox Suite',…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Motion
Erol, M.; Çolak, I. Ö. – Physics Education, 2018
This paper reports a simple magnetically driven oscillator, designed and resolved in order to achieve a better student understanding and to overcome certain instructional difficulties. The apparatus is mainly comprised of an ordinary spring pendulum with a neodymium magnet attached to the bottom, a coil placed in the same vertical direction, an…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Magnets
Najiya Maryam, K. M. – Physics Education, 2014
If we drop a magnet through a coil, an emf is induced in the coil according to Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction. Here, such an experiment is done using expEYES kit. The plot of emf versus time has a specific shape with two peaks. A theoretical analysis of this graph is discussed here for both short and long cylindrical magnets.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Magnets, Motion
Cai, Su; Chiang, Feng-Kuang; Sun, Yuchen; Lin, Chenglong; Lee, Joey J. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Educators must address several challenges inherent to the instruction of scientific disciplines such as physics -- expensive or insufficient laboratory equipment, equipment error, difficulty in simulating certain experimental conditions. Augmented reality (AR) can be a promising approach to address these challenges. In this paper, we discuss the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Science Instruction, Physics
Donoso, Guillermo; Ladera, Celso L. – European Journal of Physics, 2012
The parametric oscillations of an oscillator driven electromagnetically are presented. The oscillator is a conductive pipe hung from a spring, and driven by the oscillating magnetic field of a surrounding coil in the presence of a static magnetic field. It is an interesting case of parametric oscillations since the pipe is neither a magnet nor a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Magnets
Thompson, Frank – Physics Education, 2010
Great scientists in the past have experimented with coils and magnets. Here we have a variation where coupling occurs between two coils and the oscillatory motion of two magnets to give somewhat surprising results. (Contains 6 figures and 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Magnets
Featonby, David – Physics Education, 2010
This article examines several readily available "magic tricks" which base their "trickery" on physics principles, and questions the use of the word "magic" in the 21st century, both in popular children's science and in everyday language. (Contains 18 figures.)
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles
Wong, Darren; Lee, Paul; Foong, See Kit – Physics Education, 2010
We investigate the electromagnetic induction phenomenon for a "falling," "oscillating" and "swinging" magnet and a coil, with the help of a datalogger. For each situation, we discuss the salient aspects of the phenomenon, with the aid of diagrams, and relate the motion of the magnet to its mathematical and graphical representations. Using various…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Energy, Magnets, Science Instruction
Taylor, Richard S.; Wilson, William R. – Physics Teacher, 2010
Since its inception in the mid-80s, the computer mouse has undergone several design changes. As the mouse has evolved, physicists have found new ways to utilize it as a motion sensor. For example, the rollers in a mechanical mouse have been used as pulleys to study the motion of a magnet moving through a copper tube as a quantitative demonstration…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Scientific Concepts, Motion, Physics
Sinacore, J.; Takai, H. – Physics Teacher, 2010
The simple pendulum has long been used to measure "g", the acceleration due to gravity, with a precision of a few percent. Achieving agreement with the accepted value of less than 1% is feasible in the high school laboratory, though it requires some care. The precision of the measurement is bound by how accurately the period and the pendulum…
Descriptors: High Schools, Laboratory Equipment, Telecommunications, Science Instruction
Vidaurre, Ana; Riera, Jaime; Monsoriu, Juan A.; Gimenez, Marcos H. – European Journal of Physics, 2008
Magnetic braking is a long-established application of Lenz's law. A rigorous analysis of the laws governing this problem involves solving Maxwell's equations in a time-dependent situation. Approximate models have been developed to describe different experimental results related to this phenomenon. In this paper we present a new method for the…
Descriptors: Models, Physics, Science Experiments, Magnets
Piccioni, R. G. – Physics Teacher, 2007
Too often, students in introductory courses are left with the impression that Einstein's special theory of relativity comes into play only when the relative speed of two objects is an appreciable fraction of the speed of light ("c"). In fact, relativistic length contraction, along with Coulomb's law, accounts quantitatively for the force on a…
Descriptors: Physics, Magnets, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction
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