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The Brief: Build Your Own Electric Motor

This document provides instructions for building a simple electric motor using common household items like an AA battery, screw, magnet, and wire. Touching one end of the wire to the negative battery terminal and the other end to the screw head causes the screw to spin due to the Lorentz force generated by the electric current passing through the circuit. Reversing the battery terminals would cause the screw to spin in the opposite direction.

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The Brief: Build Your Own Electric Motor

This document provides instructions for building a simple electric motor using common household items like an AA battery, screw, magnet, and wire. Touching one end of the wire to the negative battery terminal and the other end to the screw head causes the screw to spin due to the Lorentz force generated by the electric current passing through the circuit. Reversing the battery terminals would cause the screw to spin in the opposite direction.

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THE BRIEF BUiLD YOUr OWN ELEctric mOtOr.

MAtEriALS An AA battery, a screw, a small round neodymium magnet (approx 6mm diameter) and a wire THE METHOD Attach the magnet to the head of the screw. Holding the battery in your hand, hang the pointy end of the scre w from the positive terminal of the battery. Hold one end of the wire to the negative terminal of the batt ery. With your other hand, touch the opposite end of the wire to the head of the screw and watch it spin .
What h tiP ap if you s pens wap the batt termina ery ls?
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HOW DOES it WOrK?

day Michael Fara electric built the rst . motor in 1821

The electric current passing through the screw when the circuit is completed by the wire is subject to a force called the Lorentz force. The force acts as a torque, which turns the screw.

Challenge designed by: Mike, design engineer at Dyso

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