X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=p7al30Vm46jLB9IUVPmr1aa8ImdoB8clTQU71CUewaM=; b=OTHWDqORxQnGPX+cJ6SL/E2NLQIxA+rjPdjL1q+Wtonw2hAglY8iKBE9RE7MaGzM4i DpMgV+/4GbTgPayKAf0p/tRBjhkX/GPZ7tFCSemNeLDf2zOwta+CZns1303vGYP52ux/ yZAlqgRxErmlPJee4C/28aT11qs3LvVmFDSpyZsg8s0K2HMZT/GZEVPctQyZzt1G0NB3 1iSalhYmoL0Xix1fREs8Vc+bra3B8L1EWni0N1BKB5S2k0J0eZsr2M46o8Be6dFFIi11 YDMBrEYD+Fp0HatYKoceW957pWpfhaBHvGzTXTO38mz3xSZkgbdvcuqhPfpYKjRaLDPX ntfg== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:42:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] Daughter's Science Fair From: Rob Butts To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015175cd0eabb7c2004bb5ee47b Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --0015175cd0eabb7c2004bb5ee47b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Yeah, I think I'll just keep it to the electromagnetic nails. I don't feel comfortable playing with ac outlet power for this! Thanks! On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Atommann wrote: > 2012/3/16 Rob Butts : > > My nine-year-old daughter has a science fair tomorrow. We are doing > simple > > electromagnets out of nails. We are just using one C battery with > > approximately a 30-penny nail and 26 guage wire wrapped around the nail > for > > two layers. When the battery is connected the nail has a good magnetic > > strength in that it will pick up another nail not just paper clips. > > > > I was thinking about showing how a current in one coil will induce a > current > > in another (how an electric toothbrush charges). We rigged up another > nail > > the same way but with a little bulb attached. Check my theory, shouldn't > > the electromagnetic field produced by the coil and nail with the battery > > induce a current in the other coil when placing the nails adjacent > > and parallel? > > I have an ideas: > Use a longer nail and wrap two coils on the same nail, one coil will > be connected to the battery with a switch while the other one will be > connected to a small bulb. When you turn on/off the switch see what > happens. > > -- > Best regards, > Atommann > > --0015175cd0eabb7c2004bb5ee47b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Yeah, I think I'll just keep it to the electromagnetic nails.=A0 I= don't feel comfortable playing with ac outlet power for this!
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Thanks!

On Fri, Mar= 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Atommann <atommann AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
2012/3/16 Rob Butts <r DOT butts2 AT gmail DOT com>:
> My nine-year-old daughter has a science fair to= morrow.=A0 We are doing simple
> electromagnets out of nails.=A0 We are just using one C battery with > approximately a=A030-penny nail and 26 guage wire wrapped around the n= ail for
> two layers.=A0 When the battery is connected the nail has a good magne= tic
> strength in that it will pick up another nail not just paper clips. >
> I was thinking about showing how a current in one coil will induce a c= urrent
> in another (how an electric toothbrush charges).=A0 We rigged up anoth= er nail
> the same way but with a little bulb attached.=A0 Check my theory, shou= ldn't
> the electromagnetic field produced by the coil and nail with the batte= ry
> induce a current in the other coil when placing the nails adjacent
> and=A0parallel?

I have an ideas:
Use a longer nail and wrap two coils on the same nail, one coil will
be connected to the battery with a switch while the other one will be
connected to a small bulb. When you turn on/off the switch see what
happens.

--
Best regards,
Atommann


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