Magnet
Electricity and Magnetism

Electromagnets

Physics Narrative for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

Electromagnets and what can be done with them

The interactions of magnets serve as a template for the interactions of electromagnets. The similarity of the field around a bar magnet to the field around a coil of wire in which there is an electric current is one building block. The details of the interactions of fields are dealt with in the SPT: Electricity and energy topic, so a rather functional approach to the electromagnetic devices is probably sufficient here.

Magnet
can be analysed using Magnetic Field
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