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Foundations of Physical Science: Workshop: Electric Motor

This document provides an overview of building and experimenting with electric motors. It begins with key questions about how electricity and magnetism relate and how electric motors work. It then describes building a basic 4-pole electric motor and challenges the reader to design different motors using colored disks, with the goal of building the fastest motor. The document also explores the attraction and repulsion of magnets and how electromagnets work by reversing polarity with a change in electric current direction.

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Foundations of Physical Science: Workshop: Electric Motor

This document provides an overview of building and experimenting with electric motors. It begins with key questions about how electricity and magnetism relate and how electric motors work. It then describes building a basic 4-pole electric motor and challenges the reader to design different motors using colored disks, with the goal of building the fastest motor. The document also explores the attraction and repulsion of magnets and how electromagnets work by reversing polarity with a change in electric current direction.

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Foundations of

Physical Science
Workshop: Electric Motor

Electric Motor
CPO Science

Key Questions
How are electricity and
magnetism related?
How does an electric
motor work?

Overview
M a g n e ts
B u ild a n E le ctr ic
M o to r
D e s ig n a n d B u ild
D i ff e r e n t M o t o r s

Fun with
Take your
motor completely
Magnets
apart to expose the little

ceramic magnets that are in the


rotor pockets

What stupid magnet tricks


can you come up with?
Compare force of attraction with
force of repulsion

Fun with Magnets


S -S

10

20

d is ta n c e

30

40

50

N -N

Re p e l

S -N

A ttr a ct

60
70
80
90
D is ta n c e in m illim e t e r s

S lid e th e s e c o n d m a g n e t
c lo s e r a n d c lo s e r u n til
th e fir s t o n e m o v e s .

R e p e l

100

N -S

A ttra c t
R epel

F ir s t m a g n e t
S econd m agnet

D is ta n c e 1
D is ta n c e 2
D is ta n c e 3

11 0

120

S -S

A ttra c t
R epel

130

140

N -N

A ttra c t
R epel

How does a motor work?


A ttr a ct

Rep el
R o to r

M a g n e ts o n th e o u ts id e (s ta to r )
p u s h a n d p u ll o n m a g n e ts o n th e
in s id e (r o to r )

Electromagnets
Coil of wire wrapped
around a steel pin
You can reverse polarity
by switching direction of
electricity

Electromagnets
N

E le ctr ic
Cu rre n t

E le ctr ic
Cu rre n t

N
E le ctr o m a g n e t M o d u le

E le ctr ic
Eye
C o il o f W ir e
T h ick S te e l P in

Switching
electromagnet polarity
Mechanism that makes
electric current switch
direction is called a
commutator
Clear = north
Black = south

Switching electromagnet polarity


C le a r = n o r th p o le

C
B

S w itch

B la ck = s o u th p o le
C

Build a 4-pole electric motor

4 a lte r n a tin g m a g n e ts
p in k d is c
co n n e ct b a tte r y p a ck
h o ld th e r u n b u tto n
n u d g e to s ta r t

Design other
Using othermotors
colored disks, decide
how to build a working motor

Save the green disk for last its a


bit tricky!
Use a photogate to measure
frequency, and from that calculate
the speed in rev per sec
(frequency divided by # black
areas)
Who can build the fastest motor?

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