Equipment: A compass, iron filings, a current carrying solenoid and a 40 Amp power supply. What it does: The compass shows the direction of the field lines in and around the solenoid. The iron filings ...

Equipment: A compass, iron filings, a current carrying conductor and a 40 Amp power supply. What it does: The compass shows the direction of the field lines around the conductor. The iron filings line ...

Magnetic fields lines are invisible but they fill the space around a magnet where the magnetic forces work on magnetic materials, and where they can attract or repel other magnets.

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. It uses magnetic and electric fields to speed up charged particles like protons or ions to very high speeds. This allows the particles to collide with ...