Week 2: Introduction into NGSS
Part 1: Magnets In class we explored the world of magnets. We started by thinking about where magnets exist in our world. This could be in wind turbines, providing us with power, in toys or even an MRI, which is just a giant magnet. In school I don't really remember covering anything about magnets directly until my second semester of college physics that went over electricity and magnetism. However, after conversations in class I made the connection that dipoles in a molecule is pretty much a magnet. I never thought about it in that way, but it makes sense. I am surprised that we don't talk more about magnetism in chemistry. Thinking about it farther, I think we covered the idea of free electrons in metals in my engineering material science course. My predictions were definitely off. I over complicated the experiment in my head thinking that the circuit board was going to produce an electromagnet to disrupt the magnetic field. Turns out it was Iron that actually caused the p...