NAVYUG SCHOOL, LODHI ROAD

PHYSICS INVESTGATORY PROJECT

XII - A

Making A Tesla Coil

Teacher Name: Mr. Vikas Kumar

Student Name: Nirbhit Modi

Roll No.:
 CERTIFICATE
This is to clarify that Nirbhit Modi of
Class 12th has completed the physics
project entitled.

“Making A Tesla Coil." under the guidance

of their physics teacher Mr. Vikas Kumar
and lab assistants Mr. Manish.

The progress of the project has

been continuously reported and
has been acknowledged
Consistently.

(Physics
teacher)
 Acknowledgement

I would like to owe the sense of gratitude to

our physics teacher Mr. Vikas Kumar for
her consistent guidance support and
encouragement without which this project
would not be able to exist in present shape.

I would also like to thank our lab assistant

Mr. Manish my parents for their blessings
and my friends for their help in order to
complete the project.

Thanking You!
 Introduction

•Tesla coil is an electrical resonant

transformer circuit invented and
named after by Nicola Tesla in 1891. It
is used to produce high voltage, low
current alternating current electricity.
The output voltage is produced by
resonance
 APPLICATIONS OF TESLA
•The Tesla Coil is a machine for generating extreme
high voltages. It's sort of like the Van De Graff
generator, but much more powerful. When you fire
it up, the shiny donut/sphere-shaped part on top is
energized with about 500,000 volts of high-
frequency current. The Tesla coil uses high-
frequency transformer action together with
resonant voltage amplification to generate
potentials in the range of tens to hundreds, or even
thousands of kilovolts.

•About 100 years ago Nikola Tesla invented his

""Tesla Coil". Tesla invented his coil with the
intention of transmitting electricity through the air.
He conducted much research in this area. He
purposed using a few coils spread across the globe
to transmit electrical energy through the earth.
Wherever power was needed one would need only
a receiving coil to convert the power into a useful
form.
•Tesla coil circuits were used commercially
in spark gap radio transmitters for wireless
telegraphy until the 1920s, and in
electrotherapy and pseudo medical devices
such as violet ray. Today, their main use is
entertainment and educational displays.
 COMPONENTS
• RESISTOR

A resistor is a component that opposes a

flowing current( A resistor of 22k resistance is
used in the project). Every conductor has a
certain resistance if
• One applies a potential difference V at the terminals
of
a resistor, the current I passing through it is given by:
•I=V/R

•This formula is known as Ohm's Law. The SI unit of

resistance is Ohm (2). One can show that the power
(in J/s) dissipated due to a resistance is equal to:
•P=VI
 • CAPACITOR
A Capacitor is a component that can store energy in the
form of an electric field. Less abstractly, it is composed
in its most basic form of two electrodes separated by a
dielectric medium. If there is a potential difference V
between those two electrodes, charges will accumulate
on those electrodes: a charge Q on the positive them.An
electrical field therefore arises between them. If both of
the electrodes carry the same amount of charge, one
can write:
Q=CV

• INDUCTOR
An inductor stores the energy in the form a
magnetic field. Every electrical circuit is
characterized by a certain inductance. When current
fl ows within a circuit, it generates a magnetic field B
that can be calculated from Maxwell Ampere's law:
 • MAGNETIC WIRE
Magnet wire or enameled wire is a copper or
aluminum wire coated with a very thin layer of
insulation. It is used in the construction of
transformers, inductors, motors, speakers, hard
disk head actuators, electromagnets, and other
applications which require tight coils of wire. The
wire itself is most often fully annealed,
electrolytic ally refined copper. An aluminum
wire must have
1.6 times the cross sectional area as a copper wire
to achieve comparable DC resistance. Due to this,
copper magnet wires contribute to improving
energy efficiency in equipment such as electric
motors.
 •BATTERY

An electric battery is a device consisting of one or

more electrochemical cells that convert stored
chemical energy into electrical energy. Each cell
contains a positive terminal, or cathode, and a
negative terminal, or anode. Electrolytes allow ions to
move between the electrodes and terminals, which
allows current to fl ow out of the battery to perform
work.
Primary (single-use or "disposable") batteries are used
once and discarded; the electrode materials are
irreversibly changed during discharge. Secondary
(rechargeable batteries) can be discharged and
recharged multiple times; the original compositions
of the electrodes can be restored by reverse current.

•ON/OFF SWITCH
ON/OFF switch is used to on or off the power supply
in the circuit. A simple on/off switch is being used in
the model.
 WORKING PRINCIPLE
• FARADAY'S LAW OF MAGNETIC INDUCTION:

"The induced electromotive force in any closed

circuit is equal to the negative of the time rate
of change of the magnetic fl ux enclosed by
the circuit."

According to which, when a conductor is placed

under a varying magnetic field, a small current will
be induced inside the conductor. For a Tesla coil this
conductor will be called as the secondary coil and the
varying magnetic field will be produced by the
primary coil by passing an oscillating current
through the primary coil.

MAGNETIC FLUX:

Magnetic flux is the number of

magnetic field lines passing through a
closed surface (such as a conducting
coil).
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
 CONCLUSION
Doing this project we conclude that with
the help of this kind of technology, wireless
power transmission can be made possible
and this technology will help us in
eradicating the hazardous uses of electrical
wires and Huge power losses in
transmission. It is envisaged that wireless
energy would be really accomplished with
the advantage of easy implementation and
cost effective i.e., cost of transmission and
distribution. overhead would become less.
In the long run, this could reduce our
society's dependence on batteries, which
are currently heavy and expensive.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
•How to Make a Miniature Tesla Coil: 3
Steps (with Pictures) www.instructables.
com/id/How-to-Make-
a-Miniature-Tesla-Coil

•Tesla coil-Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teslacoi
l

•How does a mini Tesla coil works?

Electronics-Quora https://www.quor
a.com/How-does-a-
mini-Tesla-coil-works

•Design of Tesla coil Report SlideShare

https://www.slideshare.net/abinashchou
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INDEX
Acknowledgment

Certificate

Introduction

Application

Components

Working Principle

Circuit Diagram

Bibliography