Electromagnetic gun
F-EC/EV
An amazing device that shoots up a metal ring at high speed (to an height of many meters). A powerful capacitor is charged up to an adjustable and measurable voltage, and then discharged through a coil made of few turns. You may use several rings made of different conductors (aluminium, copper, iron), normal rings or cut rings (with radial or concentric slots) that are provided as samples; or you may use objects with various shapes (e.g. conducting wires shaped as close circuits). The system is remote controlled (for safety reasons).
Training program
- The magnetic field generated by the current pulse
- Magnetic induction
- Lenz’s law
- Capacitor discharge
- Induced current
- Study of the relation between the height reached by the fired ring and the voltage supplied to the capacitor
- Study of different behaviour of different rings (shape, conductivity,…)
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