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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ860270
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Sep
Pages: 8
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The Phase Shift in the Jumping Ring
Jeffery, Rondo N.; Amiri, Farhang
Physics Teacher, v46 n6 p350-357 Sep 2008
The popular physics demonstration experiment known as Thomson's Jumping Ring (JR) has been variously explained as a simple example of Lenz's law, or as the result of a phase shift of the ring current relative to the induced emf. The failure of the first-quadrant Lenz's law explanation is shown by the time the ring takes to jump and by levitation. A method is given for measuring the phase shift with results for aluminum and brass rings.
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Physics, Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
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Language: English
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