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You and your family are stranded in the countryside in South Africa with a dead car battery. To jump start the car, you need to determine which terminal on the battery is positive and which is negative. You have a bar magnet with labeled poles and a short wire. By observing the direction of the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire using the magnet, and determining which way the magnetic force acts on another magnet placed in that field, you can identify the positive and negative terminals without worrying about the sign of the mobile charges in the wire.

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Performance Task Summative

You and your family are stranded in the countryside in South Africa with a dead car battery. To jump start the car, you need to determine which terminal on the battery is positive and which is negative. You have a bar magnet with labeled poles and a short wire. By observing the direction of the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire using the magnet, and determining which way the magnetic force acts on another magnet placed in that field, you can identify the positive and negative terminals without worrying about the sign of the mobile charges in the wire.

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Performance task

Motors, Generators, and Transformers

Your family takes a trip to South Africa, and rents an old car to drive into the countryside
to see the sights. Unfortunately, the next morning you find yourself deep in the
countryside and the car won’t start because the battery is too weak. Wanting to jump-
start the car, you open the hood and find that you can’t tell which battery terminal is
positive and which is negative. However, you do have a bar magnet with the north and
south poles labeled and you manage to find a short wire. How do you use these to
determine which terminal is which? For starters, how do you determine the direction of a
magnetic field around a current-carrying wire? And in which direction will the force be on
another magnet placed in this field? Do you need to worry about the sign of the mobile
charge carriers in the wire?

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