induction welding, inductors, electromagnetic forming, magnetic flow meters, transcranial magnetic stimulation, faraday flashlight, graphics tablet or wireless energy transfer.
In this presentation, low cost and simple
experimental activities for university students are presented. The aim of these hands-on activities is that students try to understand the relations among the physical quantities involved in this very important but non-intuitive effect, as well as the mechanisms in its multiple applications. The traditional didactic approach in classroom of the phenomenon is essentially limited to the repetition of the Faraday-Henry experiments [9]. However we can found a lot of Hands-on Science Electromagnetic activities that can be 101 Hands-on Electromagnetic employed in classroom, related, for example, Induction Activities with: Earth’s magnetic field [10], eddy currents [11-13] or electric motor/generator [15-16]. B.V. Dorrío Keywords. Hands-on, Physics, Experimental ETSE de Minas, Universidade de Vigo, work, University. Campus Universitario, E36310 Vigo. Spain [email protected] References Abstract. Updated concepts and methods of [1] H.J. Jold and B. Eckert, Low-cost, high-tech teaching can be used for improving instruction in experiments for educational physics, Phys. Physics, in such a way that better connexion Educ. 33, 226-235, 1998. between real-life and specific curricula is [2] K.E. Johansson and Ch. Nilson, Experiments obtained [1-2]. Hands-on activities can be the in Modern Physics for the general public, proper tool in order to achieve these objectives Phys. Educ. 35, 256-262, 2000. [3-4]. In this context, a detailed bibliographic [3] G. Freier, The use of demonstrations in research shows us [5-6] that the electromagnetic Physics teaching, The Physics Teacher 21, induction has been analysed in detail and that 384-386, 1981. there exist a lot of Hands-on activities that can [4] E.R. Pinkston, The use of demonstrations in be employed in order to illustrate the different teaching introductory Physics, The Physics involved concepts, situations and important Teacher 21, 387-388, 1981. applications. The reasons can be found in the [5] B.V. Dorrío, A. Rúa, R. Soto y J. Arias, fact that electromagnetic induction is an Hands-on Physics Bibliography, Proc. of the important topic for science education as it is a st 1 International Conference on Hands-on physics phenomenon related to innumerable Science. Teaching and Learning in the XXI application present at everyday life including [7- Century, S. Divjak (Ed.), pp. 119-124, 8]: induction sealing, induction motors, electrical Ljubljana (ESLOVENIA) 2004. generators, transformers, contactless charging of
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