Generator Lab

According to Faraday’s Law, changing magnetic fluxes through coiled wires generate electricity (currents and voltage). To demonstrate Faraday’s law, we shook a tube that had a magnet inside which traveled back and forth through the coral of wires.

Our equipment included one generator, one voltage probe, one NXT adaptor, and we used Labview and Excel software to conduct our experiment. Our hypothesis was that the faster you shake the tube, the greater will be the generated voltage.

My partner and I conducted 4 trials: we received the sum of the square of the voltages by shaking the tube zero times, 22 times, 40 times, and 60 times.

We were hoping that the voltage would increase when we increased the number of shakes , but as you can tell by our graph, we had one error when we shook the tube 40 times it decreased, but the other 3 were correct.