how to make an electromagnet
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- 1. How to Make a Simple Electromagnet May R Chavez UP NISMED [email protected] of the Philippines National Institutefor Science and Mathematics Education 7/18/2012Development (UP NISMED)
- 2. What you will need: iron nailenamel wire drinking straw battery and battery holdersand paper connecting wires 7/18/2012
- 3. What you will do:1. Cut 6-cm of the drinking straw and 150-cm of the enamel wire. 7/18/2012
- 4. 2. Use the sand paper to remove theenamel cover on both tips of the wire. 7/18/2012
- 5. 3. Wrap around the straw the enamelwire. Make sure that the wire is nottwisted. Leave about 5-cm on both endsof the wire. 7/18/2012
- 6. 4. Wrap 50 turns of the enamel wirearound the straw. Label it. 7/18/2012
- 7. 5. Insert an iron nail inside the straw. 7/18/2012
- 8. 6. Connect the coiled wire to the batteryusing the connecting wires. 7/18/2012
- 9. 7. Hold the connecting wires and dip thecoiled wire on a pile of thumbtacks. Lift itup. Voila! You just made an electromagnet. 7/18/2012