Essays Tagged: "copper wire"

Guitar Pickups By, Ernesto Sanchez A complete guide to the anatomy history invention and impact f guitar pickups.Includes Bibliography.

he frequency of the vibrating strings.A pickup is generally made of two things; a coil of insulated copper wire and a magnet. The magnet magnetizes the strings of the guitar. When the strings vibrate ... eces, which are magnetized by the magnet and in its turn magnetize the string. In the orange is the copper wire. The copper wire, as was previously stated, is the conductor for the alternating current ...

(4 pages) 100 0 3.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

What an electro magnet is and how it works

net that creates a small electrical field when electricity flows through it. I made mine using some copper wire, a 9v, and a nail. The nail is the core but you can use any core you choose to. Now here ... ity keeps the two sulfates separated, and a "wet cell. The Daniell cell is a wet cell consisting of copper and zinc plates and copper and zinc sulphates. sulfate solution is poured over the plate to h ...

(4 pages) 39 0 1.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Essay on "The forest of forgetting"

n nurtured, its natural existence. This was a time before steel and concrete and before silicon and copper wire. Many people resent that era as being pre-civilized, overrun by savagery and disorganiza ...

(2 pages) 25 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Working of Electric Filament Heaters:

d producer of heat:Nichrome wire has a fairly high electrical resistance compared to something like copper wire, so even a short length of it has enough resistance to get quite hot.The nichrome alloy ...

(1 pages) 18 1 2.5 Jun/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

How the Length of a Wire Affects its Resistance

gated the effect of the thickness of a wire on its resistance, using three constantan wires and one copper wire. I found that the resistance increased as the thickness of the wire decreased, however, ... resistance increased as the thickness of the wire decreased, however, when I did the test with the copper wire I found that it was so unresistant that there would not be a lot of point in conducting ...

(6 pages) 21 0 3.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Preliminary test - how different wire of different materials affect the resistance

ons find it easier to pass through some materials than others. In this experiment I am going to use copper and nichrome wire. I predict that the nichrome wire will have a higher resistance than the co ... gether more in order to be able to pass through nichrome wire than they do in order to pass through copper wire. (The more the electrons bump together, the higher the resistance).Apparatus:RulerCopper ...

(1 pages) 3431 0 3.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Streching A Copper Wire

HL Practical 6 Stretching Springs Aim: To investigate the elongation of steel and copper springs Hypothesis: I believe both springs obey Hooke's Law, and they will both show plastic ... tus: · Hangers and masses · Steel spring · Self rolled copper spring · Meter rule · Tall retort stand · Stand ... observe the extension of the spring mass. And record the results in a table suitable table. Coil a copper wire on to a pencil making it a string. Connect it to the stand clamp, and slowly load weigh ...

(4 pages) 7 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

OXIDATION-REDUCTION REACTION OF MAGNESIUM

d carefully removed the lid. We folded up our magnesium ribbon and wrapped it with a short piece of copper wire so the magnesium would react and not break off during the reaction. We put this magnesiu ...

(4 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY

es of media that can be used in transmitting information in the telecommunications world : · Copper wire · Fiber Optic · Wireless Fiber optic, is the one leading the telecommunica ... lass medium can carry more information over longer distances than electrical signals can carry in a copper or coaxial medium. The purity of today?s glass fiber, combined with improved system electroni ...

(9 pages) 34 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry