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 4th International Conference on Hands-on Science
Development, Diversity and Inclusion in Science Education
101 Hands-on Electromagnetic
Induction Activities
B.V. Dorrío
ETSE de Minas, Universidade de Vigo,
Campus Universitario, E36310 Vigo. Spain
bvazquez@uvigo.es
Abstract. Updated concepts and methods of
teaching can be used for improving instruction in
Physics, in such a way that better connexion
between real-life and specific curricula is
obtained [1-2]. Hands-on activities can be the
proper tool in order to achieve these objectives
[3-4]. In this context, a detailed bibliographic
research shows us [5-6] that the electromagnetic
induction has been analysed in detail and that
there exist a lot of Hands-on activities that can
be employed in order to illustrate the different
involved concepts, situations and important
applications. The reasons can be found in the
fact that electromagnetic induction is an
important topic for science education as it is a
physics phenomenon related to innumerable
application present at everyday life including [7-
8]: induction sealing, induction motors, electrical
generators, transformers, contactless charging of
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rechargeable batteries, induction cookers,
induction welding, inductors, electromagnetic
forming, magnetic flow meters, transcranial
magnetic stimulation, faraday flashlight, graphics
tablet or wireless energy transfer.
In this presentation, low cost and simple
experimental activities for university students are
presented. The aim of these hands-on activities
is that students try to understand the relations
among the physical quantities involved in this
very important but non-intuitive effect, as well as
the mechanisms in its multiple applications. The
traditional didactic approach in classroom of the
phenomenon is essentially limited to the
repetition of the Faraday-Henry experiments [9].
However we can found a lot of Hands-on
Science Electromagnetic activities that can be
employed in classroom, related, for example,
with: Earth’s magnetic field [10], eddy currents
[11-13] or electric motor/generator [15-16].
Keywords. Hands-on, Physics, Experimental
work, University.
References
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experiments for educational physics, Phys.
Educ. 33, 226-235, 1998.
[2] K.E. Johansson and Ch. Nilson, Experiments
in Modern Physics for the general public,
Phys. Educ. 35, 256-262, 2000.
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Physics teaching, The Physics Teacher 21,
384-386, 1981.
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teaching introductory Physics, The Physics
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Hands-on Physics Bibliography, Proc. of the
st
1 International Conference on Hands-on
Science. Teaching and Learning in the XXI
Century, S. Divjak (Ed.), pp. 119-124,
Ljubljana (ESLOVENIA) 2004.
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