Tuesday, April 21, 2009

More magnets and electricity! Hey at least nothing was melted...

Hello everyone. This is my first ever blog post - that's right, first ever! I've never thought that my first ever blog post will be about physics but hey, you can't predict everything, right? I apoligize if the writing is bad/boring because afterall, I have never done a blog post until now!

So here it goes!

We started off first by getting the news that our last homework involved with chapter 28 instead of 27 only. Wait a minute, I thought that homework was on chapter 27 only. I guess that's why I did terrible on a couple questions (or maybe it was just me not realize that? Jeez...).

We then did experiements about Faraday's Law which involving wire loops and magnetic field. We found out that the more loops there are in the coil, the stronger the magnetic field of the coil is. Based on the results, we found out that the magnetic field of the coil is proportional to the current flowing through the wire and the number of loops there are in the coil.

We then learned about electromotive force, or emf. emf is from the potential difference generated magnetically. It's effected by the area, the number of loops, and rate which magnetic field changes (velocity) of the coil.

One thing that caught my interest at the end of the class was that Mason and Peter tried to demostrated something that reminded me about a phenomenon called Maglev, or magnetic levitation. This tech is used quite frequently in Japan's train system. Now, I don't know the exact detail of the system or the relationship between those two, so maybe professor Mason can explain a little bit about this? I know it's offtopic but I still find it rather interesting.

That's all folks! I hope you are still awake at this point after reading through all that! Celebration (?) is next monday so hopefully everyone is getting ready for it!

PS. Nerf offshore flow please. 100 degree weather in April is ridiculous 囧rz.

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