Friday November 7th: GENERATION AND SENSING OF MAGNETIC FIELDS (Coil Gun Demo)

October 20, 2014 |

GENERATION AND SENSING OF MAGNETIC FIELDS (INCLUDES DEMONSTRATION OF A COIL GUN) —  In 1820, HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED discovered that an electric current had an effect on the needle of a magnetic compass. —  We reenact the Oersted experiment, which opened the entire field of ELECTROMAGNETISM. —  See with your own eyes that magnetic fields…

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