Kenan+B14

Kenan B 2013-2014
 * TESTING WHETHER THE TEMPERATURE OF A MAGNET WILL AFFECT HOW FAR ITS MAGNETIC FIELD IS **

The purpose of this experiment is about testing to see what the strengths will be of different types of magnets affected by different temperatures. It was hypothesized that if the magnets were overheated, then the various magnets’ strength would go down. Also it was hypothesized that if the magnets were cooled down to a low temperature, nothing would happen. To do the experiment, the various types of magnets were be heated up with a hot plate, cooled down in a bucket of ice, and left in the open to get the magnets’ original temperature. After that was done, each magnet would be slowly pushed towards a small nail until the nail got pulled toward the magnet with the force of the magnet’s magnetic field. When this was completed, the length between nail and the original place the magnet was in when it pulled the nail toward was recorded. For each measurement there were three trials. What was commonly found in all of experiment, was that the more heated the magnet was the less magnetic field strength it had. In some cases, like with the neodymium magnet, the temperature went up when it was heated to the highest in the experiment. In some cases, when the magnet was cooled down, the magnet field strength stayed the same. In other cases the magnet field strength went up or down.
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 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

A way the experiment could be improved would be to test the magnetic force for each magnet that would be tested. Also it could be improved by testing more different types of magnets. Some future experiments that could be performed would be to test whether the size of the magnet affects how strong it is, if magnets will still work if they are melted down, or if magnets will magnetize together in a thick liquid like molasses.