Friday, February 26, 2021

RT;DL Seeing Magnetic Fields

This activity shows a magnetic field projectual being used to reveal the magnetic field around various configurations of bar magnets. As with all RT;DLs, this activity began as an in-class lab and has been retooled for online delivery. 

Seeing Magnetic Field - Movie Export

Student Document (Google Docs file)
Observations and Mysteries - HTML Export (this link is in the gdoc, too)
Observations and Mysteries - Movie Export (for devices that cannot run the HTML export—this link is in the gdoc, too)
Answer Key (Google Docs file)

I will confess that I find watching iron filings slowly align with magnetic fields on a large screen to be calmingly satisfying. I suppose it's my ASMR.


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