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TIP !

You will find supplemental

information in the “Check it

out” sections on pages 22, 23,

30, 31, 49, 63, and 64.

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Safety information .................................. inside front cover

Contents ................................................................................... 

Equipment ................................................................................ 

Tips and tricks for assembly ............................................... 

Troubleshooting ..................................................................... 

EXPERIMENTS

Electricity ................................................................................ 

We can no longer get by without electricity in our homes.

In this chapter, you will get to know a few of its basic

properties, and you will learn about all the things you

can do with switches and lights.

Electric Motor ....................................................................... 

Electric motors produce rotation from electric current.

You can also use your electric motor to tell the direction

in which current is flowing through your circuit.

Magnetism ............................................................................. 

How would you like to explore the secret powers of mag-

netism? Dive into this mysterious world, which has been

put to use by early seafaring explorers and today’s high-

tech engineers alike.

Electromagnetism ................................................................ 

What does electricity have to do with magnetism? Find

out in the experiments in this chapter.

Summary of content (6 pages)

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› › › CONTENTS Safety information................................... inside front cover Contents.................................................................................... 1 Equipment................................................................................. 2 Tips and tricks for assembly................................................ 5 Troubleshooting......................................................................
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› › › EQUIPMENT Presenting the assembly components! This list presents brief descriptions of all the components in the kit, along with illustrations. 2 COMPONENTS Component Description Battery case Item No. 704484 Never directly connect these terminals to each other. The batteries and wires can heat up and explode, not to mention that the batteries will be quickly used up. This power pack supplies the electricity for the experiments. Before starting the experiments, you will have to install two 1.
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Electricity EXPERIMENT 14 Your own traffic light Of course, red and green are also the colors that traffic signals use to tell drivers or pedestrians whether they are allowed to proceed through an intersection or cross the street. Traffic lights also use the color yellow. Would you like to be able to control three different lights? 1 HERE’S HOW Assemble the circuit exactly as shown in figure 1. If you do it right, you can choose whether to have the green, red, or yellow bulb light up.
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Electric Motor EXPERIMENT 22 19 EXPERIMENT 23 Current control Motor or light How can you check and make sure that a certain switch setting won’t result in a short-circuit — that is, a direct connection between the two battery terminals? The simplest way is to monitor the current flow with a light bulb. You can use the two-way switch to switch the current back and forth between different loads. Try it with the light and the motor.
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EXPERIMENT 40 here’s how it continues 4 Secure the bar magnets a few millimeters apart on the table and see what kinds of patterns they form (figure 4). Now hold the two bar magnets against the top of the box (figure 5). Of course, they will attract some of the iron powder. 5 WHAT’S HAPPENING As the iron particles show, the magnetic force seems to pour out of the poles and follow an arching path back to the opposite pole, with that path reaching a few millimeters out into the surrounding area.
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EXPERIMENT 61 Remote control HERE’S HOW Remove the metal prong fastener strip from a folder, and use a piece of sandpaper to roughen up its surface to about three centimeters from both ends. Attach the fastener strip to the hanger device by partly wrapping the strip around it and then securing it with tape. Its end should be about three centimeters above the table surface when the hanger is standing upright. If an electromagnet can attract iron, it can also open and close an electrical contact.