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Turning Magnetism into Electricity

OPEN TO:
-Faculty -Graduate Students -Postdocs -Staff -Undergraduate Students

This workshop introduces some of the fundamentals of electromagnetism, such as how moving magnets create and manipulate electricity, its role in the invention of electric vehicles, and how magnetic levitation works.

We often consider a battery/power supply as a necessity to generate electricity. However, did you know that we can create electricy with a single magnet? And did you know that the reverse is also true—that we can construct magnets out of electricity?

This workshop introduces some of the fundamentals of electromagnetism—how electricity and magnetism can generate one another, how the direction of a magnetic field directs the behaviors of electricity, and how we implement these ideas into building electric motors, maglev (magnetic levitation) trains, and other technologies.

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS WILL:

  • Observe how to create electricity with a magnet and vice versa on real equipment.
  • Take part in simulation games to computationally experiment on how to generate electricity and  magnetism.
  • Learn about magnetic fields and the concept of eletric current.
  • Learn about the famous Faraday’s and Biot-Savart laws that describe the relationship between magnetism and electricity.
DATE
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
TIME
5:00PM - 6:00PM
LOCATION
Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship // Hesburgh Library 2nd Floor // Classroom 246
PRESENTER
Yuyi (Wynona) Wan
CATEGORIES
CDS | Special Workshops
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Center for Digital Scholarship

Hesburgh Library–2nd Floor NE
cds.library.nd.edu
cds@nd.edu

Julie C. Vecchio '04, MPH, MLIS
Co-Interim Director
jvecchio@nd.edu
(574) 631-4900