Uploaded May 2012 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The Faraday motor was the first electric motor, first demonstrated in 1821 by Michael Faraday. This video shows step-by-step how to make one using copper wire, aluminum foil, salt water and a 9 volt battery. It then explains how it works by showing how an electric current running through a wire at right angles to a magnetic field will experience a force that is in a direction perpendicular to both those. The right-hand rule is shown. This is the Lorentz force law, or the LaPlace force.
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The Faraday motor was the first electric motor, first demonstrated in 1821 by Michael Faraday. This video shows step-by-step how to make one using copper wire, aluminum foil, salt water and a 9 volt battery. It then explains how it works by showing how an electric current running through a wire at right angles to a magnetic field will experience a force that is in a direction perpendicular to both those. The right-hand rule is shown. This is the Lorentz force law, or the LaPlace force.
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