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Someone's at the front door! Wonder What's Next? Be careful! Try It Out Ding dong! It's Wonderopolis…and we have a whole set of activities for you to try out with a friend or family member: Do you have a doorbell at your house?
If not, find a friend or family member who does. If you can, find several different doorbells that you can test out.
Do they all sound the same? How loud are their chimes? Do they all last the same amount of time? Compare the different doorbells you come across. If possible, make a recording of the various sounds and then play them back for a friend or family member. Which one is their favorite? If you're up for a field trip, ask an adult to head to the hardware store with you to check out their selection of doorbells. Can you find a really cheap model that you could buy and take home to test? Have fun examining all the inner parts of the doorbell.
Do you see how all the parts work together to make the sound? If you can, hook up a power source, so you can watch the doorbell in action. Have fun seeing how doorbells are engineered from the inside out!
Up for a challenge? Imagine what life would be like without the doorbell. A simple door knocker might not be enough. With all the televisions, stereos, and video games in homes today, the puny sound of a door knocker would likely get lost in the sounds of the regular household. Today's mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with alternatives to the modern doorbell. What other devices or contraptions might work?
Your ideas can be as practical or as crazy as you want. Let your mind roam. Be creative. Use your imagination. How about a megaphone? You could just leave one on the front porch and whenever someone wants to come in, they can just shout through the megaphone at whoever is inside.
Do you see any drawbacks to such a system? If you want, draw or paint a picture of your alternative doorbell system. Did you get it?
Test your knowledge. Wonder Words coil piston chime current digital electricity voltage buzzer circuit electromagnet transformer megaphone relatively mechanism interrupting integrated magnetic triggers Take the Wonder Word Challenge. Join the Discussion. Leslie Mar 12, Dec 4, We're so glad you stopped by to Wonder with us, alohah! Alexis Nov 13, I am new here and I need help navigating this site. If anyone wants to help, reply to this message please.
Nov 15, Georgia Woon Aug 2, Some word that I do not know they say 'Definition not found' so it is really quite difficult. Aug 5, Vonny don bobby dons brother Jun 8, Jun 9, It's awesome of you to joined us at Wonderopolis, Vonny don! Aidan Sheehan Nov 3, Bobby don Jun 8, This magnetic field produces a substantial effect on any magnetic substance when brought in the vicinity of its magnetic field. This means that when an iron object is placed in this magnetic field, it will be attracted towards the magnetic field due to polar orientation generated by the electromagnetism.
When the door bell button is pressed, an electrical circuit is closed, which leads to the flowing of electric current through the electromagnet.
This current passes through a transformer which turns the V current into usable 10 V current. The current then passes through the electromagnetic wire winding. A magnetic field is generated as a result, which is used to drive a sound making mechanism. Different types of sound making mechanisms are used to generate different sorts of noises. The simplest kind of door bell mechanism, a buzzer, works with the help of an electromagnet whose two ends of the winding are connected to the electrical circuit.
One end of the winding is connected directly to the electrical circuit while the other end of the wire is connected to a metal contact placed adjacent to a moving contact arm. The contact arm is a light thin metal arm, whose one end rests against the contact point, while the other end is anchored and connected to the electrical circuit.
When the door bell button is pressed, the electrical circuits closes and results in the generation of an electromagnetic field. The magnetic field attracts the iron bar, which pulls the contact arm away from the metal contact. The moving away of the contact arm breaks the circuit and thus turns off the electromagnet.
Explanation: Working of an electromagnet is based on the magnetic effect of electric current. An electromagnet behaves as a magnet when current passes through it. Hence, it will attract a piece of iron.
But when you bring a nail near the south pole of your electromagnet, the north poles of the iron atoms will be attracted to the south pole of the electromagnet and they will all line up pointing in the same direction. The nail is now magnetized, with its north poles facing the south pole of the electromagnet.
Solution: No, electromagnets attract only magnetic substances. Plastic bags are non-magnetic in nature and are not attracted by an electromagnet. Hence, an electromagnet cannot be used for separating plastic bags from a garbage heap. An Electromagnet is just like a magnet, but it is made artificially, and with the help of electricity around a coil, or many other things.
And yeah, it attracts iron because it has this magnetism , which iron gets attracted to, just like normal magnets. The strength of an electromagnet can be increased by increasing the number of loops of wire around the iron core and by increasing the current or voltage.
You can make a temporary magnet by stroking a piece of iron or steel such as a needle along a permanent magnet. An electromagnet consists of a long coil of insulated copper wire wound around an iron rod.
When the two ends of the coil are connected to a cell, a current passes through the coil and produces a magnetic effect. This magnetic effect magnetises the iron rod.
So, the iron rod becomes an electromagnet. If you hold a compass near a wire through which current is flowing, the needle on the compass will be deflected. Since compasses work by pointing along magnetic field lines, this means that there must be a magnetic field near the wire through which the current is flowing.
If you disconnect the wire, the magnetic field disappears and the nail is no longer a magnet. Answer: When a current is switched on through a wire, the wire starts behaving as a magnet.
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