Science Common Sense

1355 - How does an electric motor work due to the force exerted on current-carrying wires in a magnetic field.

Imagine you have a wire with electricity flowing through it, and it's placed near a magnet. The magnet creates a magnetic field, which is like an invisible force that can interact with the electricity in the wire.

When the wire is inside this magnetic field, it feels a force that makes it move. This is because the electricity in the wire creates its own tiny magnetic field, and the two fields interact. This interaction is what makes the wire move.

Now, imagine you have a coil of wire that can spin around. If you send electricity through the wire and place it in a magnetic field, the coil will start to spin. This is the basic idea behind an electric motor.

As the coil spins, it creates a push-pull effect on the electricity flowing through it, which makes it keep spinning. The magnetic field from the magnet interacts with the magnetic field created by the coil, making the coil spin faster and faster.

This spinning is what allows an electric motor to do things like turn wheels, power tools, or even move a robot. It's a simple but powerful idea that helps make many modern machines work.