Ahmed doesn't believe in electromagnetism so he makes an electromagnet to prove his teacher wrong. To his surprise, the electromagnet works and he's able to pick up metal objects with it. Even still, he's not satisfied with his electromagnet because it's very weak. What can he do to make it stronger?

Answers: use a weaker battery
1. use a stronger battery
2. use a plastic nail
3. glue the wire to the nail
4. wrap the wire around the nail fewer times

"Electromagnets are made of coils of wire with electricity passing through them. Moving charges create magnetic fields, so when the coils of wire in an electromagnet have an electric current passing through them, the coils behave like a magnet."

4) So, if the coils are creating a moving charge, and there are more coils, each coil will be "setting up" its own magnetic field. This means that less coils will make the electromagnet weaker

2) Because it is an electromagnet, a plastic nail is not going to produce the same effect. An electromagnet is picking up metal, and it is not picking up plastic. This is because plastic (a material with low permeability) does not have a magnetic field that is able to interact with a magnet.

[Permeability is a measure of how easily magnetic lines of force can pass through a material.]

3) There's not really a point that I can imagine of gluing the wire to the nail. Glue would put more distance between the nail and the magnet than nothing being there at all.

1) More voltage in a battery produces a larger current in the wire. This means that the strength of an electromagnet is affected by the voltage/strength of the battery. So, a stronger battery would make the electromagnet stronger, and a weaker battery would make the electromagnet weaker.

Zagorodniypolina5 Zagorodniypolina5 · Answer 2 · 2022-06-08T08:22:41+02:00

Zagorodniypolina5 Zagorodniypolina5

08-06-2022

Answer:

I think it would be wrapping the wire around the nails a few times

Because the more turns of wire your magnet has, the better.

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