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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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Make a simple generator and investigate the relationship between magnetism and the induction of electrical current.
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Demonstrate that the laws of repulsion and attraction of magnetic poles are used in a levitating train.
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Using "Student Power" to Generate Electricity to Run a Portable Compact Disc Player
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Build your own magnetic car.
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How does the strength of a magnetic field vary with distance from the magnet?
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Build and demonstrate a homemade compass.
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Make a Chinese Compass
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Build a soda bottle magnetometer
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Permeable and nonpermeable material
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Make a Foxhole Radio from a coil, safety pin and a razor blade.
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Seeing magnetic field patterns in 3D.
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What is attracted to magnets?
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Magnets & Electromagnets
Explore Earth's Magnetism & Magnetosphere
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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What is Magnetorheological Fluid and how it works?
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Find the maximum efficiency setting of a simple magnetic linear accelerator.
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Electricity Generation in Reversed Faraday Setup: Effect of Magnet Geometry?
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Determine whether magnets could increase the momentum of rolling ball bearings in order to launch one uphill and several inches through the air.
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What affects the strength of a magnet?
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How does the strength of a magnetic field vary with distance from the magnet?
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Magnetic fields and Bermuda triangles
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Suspend a magnet in mid-air.
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Build a Curie-effect magnetic heat engine.
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How do x-ray radiation and temperature affect magnet's polarity and strength
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Build a simple electric generator and test the factors affecting its output.
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Faraday's Law: Creating Electric Current with a Magnet
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Measure the induced magnetic force due to a changing magnetic field (Lenz's Law).
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A few magnetism experiments: magnetorheological fluids; levitating pyrolytic graphite; Gauss Rifle: a magnetic linear accelerator.
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Magnets & Electromagnets
Explore Earth's Magnetism & Magnetosphere
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High School - Grades 10-12
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The Frog That Learned to Fly (Magnetic Levitation)
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Circuit Dynamics and Modeling of the Gauss Accelerator
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The Effect of the Magnetic Field and Diamagnetic Materials on Diamagnetic Levitation
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The Effect of Core Geometry and Bias on Solenoid Efficiency
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The efficiency of a hand-built AC generator in relation to the angular velocity of the magnets.
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Comparison of the Efficiency of Gauss and Rail Guns
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Is It Possible to Levitate an Object Using the Principle of Magnetic Levitation?
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Investigate tunnel junction magnetoresistance
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Magnets & Electromagnets
Explore Earth's Magnetism & Magnetosphere
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Useful Links
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Electricity Basics
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Battery & Cell Background
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Electricity & Electronics Inventions and Discoveries
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Electrical Safety
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Electricity Science Fair Projects Books
    
    
    
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