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Faraday connected his apparatus to a battery,which sent electricity through the wire creating a magnetic fieldaround it. This field interacted with the field around the magnetand caused the wire to rotate clockwise. This discovery ledFaraday to contemplate the nature ofelectricity.
Correspondingly, how does a simple Homopolar motor work?
Homopolar Motor is one that uses direct currentto power rotational movement, such as that generated by a battery.A conductor with a current flowing through it when placed in amagnetic field which is perpendicular to the current feels a forcein the direction perpendicular to both the magnetic field and thecurrent.
In this way, why did Michael Faraday invent the motor?
Michael Faraday discovered thatelectricity could be made by moving a magnet inside a wirecoil, he was able to build the first electric motor. Helater built the first generator and transformer.
Copper is a metal that conducts electricity. So,electricity flowed from the positive end of the battery tothe negative end, through the battery, into the wire,up the wire, and back into the positive end of thebattery! These opposing forces cause an outward motion onthe wire – causing it to spin around themagnet.