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Simulation things to note… • Part A: your arrow tip = red part of needles • Part B: you can change battery voltage on the actual battery • Part C: circuit = what is on your screen, when you click on “polarity” = “flip polarity” Voltage Current Resistance
Chapter 17 Electric Motors and Generators
Electric Motors and Generators Motors: transform electrical energy into mechanical energy Generators: transform mechanical energy into electrical energy • Electrical energy: energy from moving electrical charge • Mechanical energy: energy due to motion or position
More Vocabulary • Rotor – a piece that rotates in a motor • Commutator – a device that can reverse the flow of electric current
Electric Motors Motors have three parts: A rotor with magnets that alternate. One or more fixed magnets around the rotor. A commutator that switches the direction of current to keep the rotor spinning.
Electric motors Around the edge of a rotor are several magnets, their alternating north and south poles facing out.
Electric motors To make the rotor spin, bring a permanent magnet close to its edge. The free magnet attracts one of the magnets in the disk and repels the next one. The disk is a “rotor” because it rotates.
Electric motors In a working electric motor, an electromagnet replaces the magnet you reversed with your fingers. • As the rotor spins, a commutatorreverses the direction of the current in the electromagnet.
Electromagnetic Induction Electromagnetic induction: a moving magnet produces a current in a coil of wire Generators use electromagnetic induction to create electricity
Battery Run Electric Motors An electric motor that runs from batteries has the same three parts: rotating part, fixed magnets, and a commutator. The permanent magnets are on the outside, and the electromagnets turn in the rotor. Commutator Permanent magnets
Generating Electricity A generatorconverts mechanical energy into electrical energy using the law of induction. • As long as the disk is spinning, there is a changing magnetic field through the coil and electric current is created.
Exit Question! The diagram below represents the rotor of an electric motor. To cause the rotor to turn in a counter-clockwise direction, the north pole of a magnet should be placed at position: