ELIZALDE I.

ESCAT II
BSABE 3-1

Project Title: Simple Electric Motor

Abstract

When you think of a motor, you may immediately think of a car, but you
actually encounter other motors in your home every day. That's right, if you put on
clean clothes from the washing machine, ate food from the fridge, or used a fan,
you used an electric motor. In this electronics science project, you will make a
simple electric motor with two magnets that "talk" to each other. As they interact,
they will alternate between "liking" each other (pulling together), and "disliking"
each other (pushing away from one another). All that pushing and pulling will create
some serious spinning and that is exactly what a motor is, a spinning axle.

Objective

- Learn how to build a simple electric motor and study how simple changes
affect the motor's rotation.

Materials and Equipment

- Battery, C cell (2)

- Piece of cardboard

- Sandpaper, fine-grit
- Magnet wire, enamel-coated
- Magnet
- paper clips (2), metallic
- Tape

Procedure

1.) Building the Electromagnet

- First coil the magnet wire on a 1.5 diameter cylinder 11 times.
- Slide it out of the cylinder and bunch it together to form a tight coil.
- Thread each free end of the magnet wire through the loops of coil in the 3
o'clock and 9 o'clock positions it should form a straight imaginary line
through the coil.
- Remove the coating on the left free end and remove only half of the
coating of the right free end using sand paper.
2.) Building the Axle Supports
- Bend the inner part of each of your two paperclips open to make a tiny
loop.
- Attach the bended paper clips to the battery using tape.
3.) Place the setup on a cardboard or plywood.
4.) Put the magnet below the electromagnet.
5.) If the motor is not running carefully give it light spin like a kick-start to make
it spin continuously until the battery dies.