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How Do Copper Wires Wrap Around The Nail Affect The Strength Of The Magnet

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How can the times of the copper wire wrapped around the nail would affect the strength of the magnet? Hypothesis My hypothesis for this experiment is that the more copper is wrap around the nail the stronger will eventually be and the more heavy things can hold and lift . Also the thickness of the wire will affect the strength. The amount of space you leave between each loop could also affect the the strength and the time the the nail would hold the metal objects. Background research The purpose of this experiment is to prove if the number of wires wrap around the nail will affect the strength of magnetism. The electromagnets are used in many household items. Electromagnets are Magnets when they have electricity running through them, but they are not regular magnets because electromagnets can be turned on and off, so when when electricity …show more content…

This were all the materials I used to complete the experiment. First I hold the 2 nails and I wrapped the copper wire on both of them. In one of them I wrap the copper wire 5 times a round the nail and I left a little space in between each loop. Than I decide to coil the wire 15 times around the same nail with almost no space in between them. At the end of each time i wrapped the nail with the loops I left some wire so that I was able to hook it up to the battery. The wire that was left out, I folded it so it could be able to hold on to the battery, positive and negative. The positive was the flat head of the nail and the negative was the pointy bottom of the nail. The type of battery that i used was a D battery. By putting the nail wrap with copper wire into the battery it started creating magnetism. When they made contact the wire and the battery got hot so i had to use the cloth. After this the small magnetic objects were getting attached to the

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