On Monday October 26, 2015, we conducted a shaking experiment to generate power. We hooked up the LEGO mindstorm to a connecting wire to a shaker that have a coil in its case with a magnet going through it. 

This show the generator we used to create voltage, with a coil of wire and a magnet that pass through the coil center it, changes the magnetic flux as it goes back and forth.Since there is a change in flux it will generate a voltage. This is stated by the Faraday’s Law; changing magnetic fluxes through coiled wires generate electricity (currents and voltage).

In theory, as the amount of shakes increases the voltage generated increases. However on the chart you see that isn’t the case. That is because the LEGO mindstorm isn’t always accurate which is why at 30 shakes and 90 shakes there is a decrease in voltage generation from the previous number of shakes. The mindstorm only records for 30 seconds and it records the power every second. After each set of shakes, we would get the recorded data, and average them then repeat the new set but faster and faster. We then graphed the data according to its number of shakes. what you see above and determine it is still reliable because of some problems the LEGO windstorm presents.