Faraday Facts
Inventions and Discoveries
Inventions & Discoveries PT 2
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
September 22, 1791
What is Michael Faraday's date of birth?
100
Invented by Faraday, this is a direct current electric motor with two magnetic poles.
What is the homopolar motor?
100
This is the formula that describes how potential difference is created and how much is created.
What is Faraday's Law?
100
A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), either statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current.
What is electricity?
100
Faraday first became an assistant to this chemist.
Who is Humphrey Davy?
200
Michael Faraday refused to make these for the British government during times of war.
What are chemical weapons?
200
The process where a conductor is placed in a changing magnetic field and causes the production of a voltage across the conductor.
What is electromagnetic induction?
200
This is the year that Michael Faraday invented the homopolar motor, or the first electric motor.
What is 1821?
200
A physical phenomenon produced by the motion of electric charge, resulting in attractive and repulsive forces between objects.
What is magnetism?
200
Faraday refused to accept this honor for his work.
What is knighthood?
300
Faraday apprenticed for this job as a young teenager.
What is a book binder?
300
On display at the Royal Institution, this experiment helped Faraday to discover mutual induction.
What is the iron ring coil apparatus?
300
This discovery is used in the presence of an external, yet weak, magnetic field. It can be used for levitation!
What is diamagnetism?
300
The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
What is electromagnetism?
300
Faraday declined this position at the Royal Society not once, but twice.
What is the presidency?
400
Faraday's family suffered from great money problems. This was his father's occupation.
What is a blacksmith?
400
Created by Faraday, this invention is closely related to a modern day generator.
What is a dynamo?
400
Faraday's discovery of liquefying gases, benzine, and oxidation numbers can be credited to which branch of science?
What is chemistry?
400
The branch of chemistry that deals with the relations between electrical and chemical phenomena.
What is electrochemistry?
400
This award, given by the Royal Society of London, is given to those who excel at communicating science to audiences in the United Kingdom.
What is the Michael Faraday Prize?
500
Faraday had to leave his schooling to provide for his family at this age.
What is the age of 13?
500
Faraday can be given some credit towards towards the origination of these terms.
What are electrode, ion, and cathode?
500
The process of liquefying gases led to what later invention?
What is the refrigerator?
500
A region around a magnetic material or a moving electric charge within which the force of magnetism acts.
What is a magnetic field?
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