{"id":779585,"date":"2010-04-25T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/04\/25\/science-magnets-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:17:00","slug":"science-magnets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/04\/25\/science-magnets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are having fun continuing our lessons on magnets.&nbsp; Here are three experiments we performed&#8230;<br \/>\nWe had three different shapes of magnets: bar, square, round.&nbsp; We measured the pull of each magnet by placing a paper clip at the end of a ruler and slowly moving each magnet along the ruler, measuring the length at which the magnet engaged with the paper clip.<\/p>\n<p>The second experiement was the same thing, but with the magnet descending vertically.&nbsp; We learned that it takes longer for the engagement with the vertical position, because of the added element of gravity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4014\/4551113011_ea9114152a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4551113153_1143a4c220.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4013\/4551113315_a6f6e04fe8.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe third experiment failed, but it is still worth mentioning.&nbsp; It failed because either our magnets were too weak or the butterflies were too big.&nbsp; We did not try it again with different variables.<br \/>\nWe made tissue butterflies and attached a paperclip to each.&nbsp; We then taped the butterflies to a piece of sting and anchored it onto the counter.&nbsp; The idea is to take a magnet and place it just above the butterfly to make it fly without touching it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4054\/4551113501_43064e4b42.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are having fun continuing our lessons on magnets.&nbsp; Here are three experiments we performed&#8230; We had three different shapes of magnets: bar, square, round.&nbsp; We measured the pull of each magnet by placing a paper clip at the end of a ruler and slowly moving each magnet along the ruler, measuring the length at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}