Blog #2 – Electromagnets

What did you learn from the experiment?

• That the north and the north side of a magnet can not go together and instead that they pull away from each other.

• Magnets are magnetic all the time and electromagnets are only magnetic when electricity runs through them.

• When you are making an electromagnet you need to make sure that you twist it the right amount of times otherwise it does not work.

• I learned about Newton’s laws. There are 3 laws that talk about force and reaction.

How does what you learned apply to a pinball machine?   

Newton’s 3 laws can apply to a pinball machine. For example, in law 1, it says: “A object will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalenced force. An object in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” If you had a pinball machine with a marble, say. and the marble wouldn’t move unless you did something to it, like hitting it with one of those shooter things on the pinball machine or a flapper. If you didn’t hit it, it would stay there for hours, but, if it was on an unbalanced force then it would roll down until it hit a steady platform again.