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1. The document is a magnetism quiz containing 14 multiple choice questions about concepts related to magnetism including magnetic fields, electromagnetism, induction, and generators/motors. 2. Some key concepts covered are how changing magnetic fields can induce currents in nearby conductors, the relationship between current flowing in a wire and the magnetic field that forms around it, and how devices like generators and motors work using these principles of electromagnetic induction. 3. Correct answers include that changing the magnetic field around a coil of wire by moving it in and out of a magnet can induce current, and that moving a metal bar near two magnets or twisting/moving it between the magnets can also induce current through electromagnetic induction

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1. The document is a magnetism quiz containing 14 multiple choice questions about concepts related to magnetism including magnetic fields, electromagnetism, induction, and generators/motors. 2. Some key concepts covered are how changing magnetic fields can induce currents in nearby conductors, the relationship between current flowing in a wire and the magnetic field that forms around it, and how devices like generators and motors work using these principles of electromagnetic induction. 3. Correct answers include that changing the magnetic field around a coil of wire by moving it in and out of a magnet can induce current, and that moving a metal bar near two magnets or twisting/moving it between the magnets can also induce current through electromagnetic induction

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MAGNETISM QUIZ

1. You and a friend are trying to determine the 4. True or False. Magnetic Induction involves the
direction of the magnetic field when current is transfer of energy from electric field to the force
flowing through a wire using a compass. What field which enables a generator to work.
variable will NOT affect your experiment? A) True
A) Amount of current flowing through wire. B) False
B) Size of the compass
C) The Distance the compass is from the wire 5. A student is describing a experiment he
D) Orientation of the compass performed in Physics that week below:
“We rotated a coil of wire around two very strong
2. A coil of wire is passed back and forth through magnets. It caused the electrons to flow in the coil
the magnet shown below. and the flow of electrons can be used to power a
light bulb.”
What is the student describing?
A) Generator
B) Motor
C) Generator & Motor
D) Faraday Cage
What is induced on the coil as it passes back and
forth through the magnet?
6. Which statement accurately describes what
A) Resistance
occurs to compasses when they are placed
B) Current
around a wire with current flowing?
C) Gravity
A) Magnetic Force is either perpendicular or
D) None of the Above
parallel to the current flowing in the wire
depending on the amount of current so all of
3. Which statement accurately describes how a
the compasses point East.
Shake Flashlight (shown below) works?
B) Magnetic field is oval shaped around a wire so
the compasses will point East and West only.
C) Magnetic Field forms circles around the wire
so the compasses will align with magnetic
A) When you shake the flashlight, the inertia of field.
the electrons in the circuit allow the electrons D) There is no magnetic field around the wire
to move and generate current. when current is flowing so the compasses will
B) When you shake the flashlight, the magnet in point North.
the Shake Light rubs off electrons and it causes
the electrons to move and generate resistance. 7. If you triple the number of coils moving in and
C) When you shake the flashlight, the magnets in out of a magnet, what happens to the voltage
the flashlight induce voltage in the coil of wire induced?
by changing the magnetic field. A) The induced voltage decreases by a 1/3.
D) When you shake the flashlight, the kinetic B) The induced voltage does not change.
energy of the plastic hits the coil and turns into C) The induced voltage triples
electrical energy. D) The induced voltage quadruples.
8. True or False. Every moving electron has a
magnetic and electric field.
A) True
B) False
MAGNETISM QUIZ

9. True or False. Electrons in a magnetic field will 13. You and your lab partners are trying to induce
feel a force only if it is moving. current using a metal bar and 2 strong magnets
A) True fixed to a stand.
B) False

10. You are shopping with your friends for materials


to make an electromagnet. As you are shopping,
your friends are discussing what you need to buy
to make the electromagnet.
Sarah says “We need to buy a lot of copper wire so
we can make a stronger electromagnet.” Roberto: We should hold touch one end of the bar
Tom says “We need a high voltage battery so we to the North Pole of the magnet and the other end
can make a stronger electromagnet.” of the bar to the South Pole of the magnet.
Ashley says “We need to get an iron core because Frank: We should hold the bar in between the
without an iron core we cannot make an magnets in the middle and twist at different
electromagnet.” speeds.
How would you evaluate your friends’ statements? Henry: We should hold the bar in between the
magnets and move it away and towards us at
A) Sarah & Tom are partially correct but Ashely is different speeds.
entirely correct. Which statement(s) accurately describes how
B) Ashely is the partially correct but Sarah & Tom you can accomplish that?
are not correct. A) Roberto is correct because the metal bar has
C) Sarah & Tom are entirely correct but Ashley is to touch the magnet for it to induce current.
partially correct. B) Frank and Henry are correct because the metal
D) All of your friends are correct. bar has to be in motion relative to the magnet
to induce current.
11. You wrap two insulated copper wires around a C) All of the students are correct because the bar
ring then you change the current in one of the close to the magnet.
wires which causes a change in current in the D) None of the students are correct because the
other wire. What process is occurring in this magnetic field is not strong enough.
scenario?
A) Magnetic Convection
B) Electromagnetic Conduction
C) Electromagnetic Selection
D) Electromagnetic Induction

12. True or False. Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday


both discovered that magnetism involves the
movement of charged particles.
A) True
B) False

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