Cotton's scale

Getriebestruktur
Funktion	This scale has two bakelite pans, one fixed and one mobile. The mobile pan, which moves about an axis supported by two brass feet, features a copper wire around the edge of one of its halves. At the other end is a small mobile weight on a threaded shaft for balancing.
Getriebedimension	eben
Antriebsbewegung	Drehen
Abtriebsbewegung	Drehen
Umlauffähigkeit	ja
Umlauffähigkeit Antrieb	ja

Übertragungsaufgabe
Abtriebsgröße	umlaufend
Übertragungsfunktion	wechselsinnig

Anwendung
Anwendungsbeispiele	It enables the demonstration of the influence of a magnetic field on a conductor through which a current flows. The coil subjected to the magnetic field of a magnet unbalances the scale when fed by a current. It was used by future teachers in their studies at the Men's and Women's teacher training schools in Clermont-Ferrand, now the IUFM (University Teacher Training Institute)

Permanentlinks

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