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Leaving Cert Physics: Magnets and Magnetic Fields
Introduction to terrestrial magnetism |
Google video - 1:30 |
3 Star |
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Introduction to the Northern Lights |
Google video - 1:00 |
3 Star |
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Magnetic Field Lines |
Magnetic Field Patterns for a straight conductor, a coil and a loop. Click on Next each time |
4 Star |
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Magnetic Field of a bar magnet. Drag and click the pointer |
4 Star |
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Magnetic Field of a straight conductor, with moving electrons visible in the conductor |
4 Star |
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Magnetic fields associated with two magnets. You can change orientation of both magnets. |
4 Star |
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Click on the 'Bar Magnet' tab. |
4 Star |
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| Magnetic field due to a solenoid | link | ||
| Nice video on how magnetism guides animal migration | Link | Video from howstuffworks. 3 mins | 4 Star |
| Every few hundred thousand years the direction of the Earth's magnetic field reveerses. | Link | Video from howstuffworks. 3 min | 4 Star |
| The mythical powers of lodestone | Link | Video from howstuffworks. 3 min | 4 Star |
Make your own 3-D magnetic field. |
From youtube. 5 minutes |
5 Star |
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Want to see a levitating frog? |
Because Science has never persued a more noble cause. From YouTube. 10 seconds |
5 Star |
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Or water being affected by a magnet? |
Why not try it out in the classroom. you will need neodynium magnets. From YouTube. 40 seconds |
4 Star |
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