Magnatism & The Things We Think We Know About It!

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electrons moving in a direction which
causes a certain charge are lined up on one side and all the atoms with the
opposite charge move to the other side. The atoms then start to cancel each
other out as they approach the center of the magnet. This all happens at the
currie point where these atoms are free to move and then when cooled and the
metel becomes solid the atoms can no longer move (barely) causing a "permanent"
magnet (as in the diagram on the next page). This same principle can be applied
to a piece of metal that has been sitting next to a magnatized piece of metel in
that over the long time they are togather the very slow moving atoms in the
metal situate in the same fassion also creating a magnet. Now that we know the
basics lets begin with the experiments.
Part one of the lab started us on our journey. In this part we took an
apparatus with wire wrapped around it put a compass in the middle of the wire
wraps. The setup was arranged so that the wraps were ...

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we don't only find this equation but we also find that as the
current (or more so the magnetic field it creates) acts upon the initial
magnetic field of the earth we get the motion in the compass. This leads us to
the first part of our left hand rule. The left hand rule for a straight
conductor says that when the lines of flux are created they repel from the north
end of the compass in a certain direction (depending on which way the charge is
moving). This can be explained by our experiment's data in part one also
because as we introduced the current to the earth's magnetic field we found that
it created the motion on the compass. This all agrees with the left hand ...

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