Friday, September 24, 2010

Right Hand Rule

At least he wasn't drawing beaver pictures of us like last time.

We were learning about Right Hand Rules the other day, and that is an easy method of finding out which way is the negative charge or north in an electrical magnet, where a conductor has a wire coiled around it. First rule is to curl our fingers the direction of the electron flow, which we did while having to say "meow". Why not. Anyway, after we curl our fingers, we point our thumbs, and the direction our thumbs are pointing is the direction of the magnet's north. We can do vice-versa to find out the electron flow with the magnet's north.
Pretty simple stuff, and if you have a thing for cats it would double the fun for you.

No comments:

Post a Comment