2. Attach one end of the wire to the positive (*) end of one of your batteries.

2. Attach one end of the wire to the positive (*) end of one of your batteries. Attach the other end of the wire to the negative end () of your battery pack.
3. Try to pick up one of the paper clips with your electromagnet. What happens? Por lo werd in 40 low picks up odlip and soul weaped in
40 loop picks up is
1. Now, unhook one of the wires from the battery. Will your electromagnet pick up a paper clip now? What do you
need flowing through the wire to make the tron bolt act like a magnet? For steel it picks up 20 and iron picks up 40. You need electricity floring
through the vis
5. How many paper clips will your electromagnet hold? ne more it will hold is co clip
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6. Can you hang clips on both ends of the bolt? Why?
5. How do you think you can make your electromagnet stronger? Make a prediction. By using a robolt you will pick up more paper clips
than using a steel bolt
6. Try adding more batteries to your battery pack. Make sure all the batteries "face" the same direction in the circuit.
Now, how many paper clips will your electromagnet hold?
6. How is the strength of the electromagnet affected by the increase in electricity traveling through the wire?
7. After using the electromagnet, remove the iron nail or bolt. Can the nail still pick things up? How many paper clips
or staples can it pick up? Non does not pick wything up
8. Try dropping the nail or bolt a couple of times on the floor. How does this affect whether or not you can pick up
any paper clips or stoples? How many paper clips or staples can the nail or bolt pick up after being dropped?
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