How To Make The World's Simplest Motor| And How It Works!
350In this video I show you how to make the world's simplest motor. This is one version of a type of electric motor called a homopolar motor. This motor is made by using a wire, a screw, a battery, and a magnet. The motor works through the Lorentz Force. This is a force due to the fact that changing electric and magnetic fields are always at right angles to each other. So when an electron moves through a magnetic field it causes the electron to be pushed at a right angle to the magnetic field. In the motor, as the electrons move through the magnet, they experience a force pushing the electrons and thus the magnet at a right angle, causing the magnet to spin.
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