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equipment What’s in your experiment kit: 6 12 1 3 4 2 10 8 7 5 9 11 Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check off ✔ No. Description 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Engine block Engine cover Stabilizer Red magnet Blue magnet Battery box Gear wheel with crank hookup Gear wheel with drive wheel Hand crank Small lamp Red wire Blue wire Qty. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Item No.
1 CONTENTS Transmissions Page 3 to 6 How gears transfer force Compass Page 22 to 26 What points a e compass in th ? n right directio Electric Motor Page 27 to 38 Circuits and Conductors Page 7 to 13 Get your electric motor going! What makes the bulb light up? Generator Page 39 to 48 ce How to produ electricity Magnets Page 14 to 21 Explore the hidden forces of magnets your own ✔ CHECK IT OUT You will find su p information o plemental n pages 5, 6, 12 13, 20, 21, 25, 26, 36–38, and , 44–48.
Circuits and Conductors | 9 EXPERIMENT 3 Electricity is conducted — or not YOU WILL NEED → battery box with batteries → red wire → blue wire → lamp → various household items (such as glass, cup, wooden spoon, plastic bag, nail, coins, paper) 1 2 HERE'S HOW 1. Use the red wire to connect one battery contact to the lamp and clamp the blue wire to the other. 3 2.
34 EXPERIMENT 19 Polar reversal YOU WILL NEED → engine block → both gears → cover → stabilizer → red magnet → blue magnet → battery box with batteries → red wire → blue wire 1 HERE'S HOW 1. Have you been paying attention up to now exactly how the motor is connected to the battery contacts? T ake a look at the motor contact where the blue wire clamp is mounted and note the rotation direction of the motor: clockwise or counterclockwise? 2. Reverse the red and blue wire clamps on the motor.
