If a steel nail is wrapped 8 times with an insulated copper wire and each end of is attached to a 1.5 V battery, we find that it will lift the weight of 2 large paper clips. We hypothesized that for each 8 coils, you will be able to pick up one additional paper clip. When we ran the experiment, we observed and recorded that when we added 8 more wraps around the nail (16 coils) we could lift 4 paper clips and when we added 8 more wraps (24 coils) we could lift 6 paper clips. Choose the correct conclusion to the experiment.
1. We redesign the test and hope for better results.
2. We concluded that every time we add 8 wraps to the nail the total number of paper clips lifted doubled.
3. We concluded that our original test flawed. Because of the results, 8 coils should be able to pick up 2 paper clips. We will check our original test with a fresh battery.
4. We concluded that something went wrong with the experiment since it didn't give us the results we expected.