Motor Spin Experiment Report

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Does the type of battery used to create a motor affect the time the motor spins? If the type of battery affects the amount of time the coil spins then the D-battery powered electric motor will spin for the longest period of time. The procedures were to create the motor and find a spot for the motor to spin. You also needed to keep track of the time the motor spinned. When the motor stops spinning record the time on a data table. The independent variable was the type of battery used for the motor. The dependent variable was the time the motor spinned. The control variables where the materials used other than the battery. The control group was the D-battery and the experimental group was C, AA, and AAA-Batteries. The experiment had 3 trials for each motor. The D-Battery average time was 4 hours 29 minutes 45 sec. C-Battery average time was 4 hours 19 minutes 30 seconds. The AA-Battery average time was 1 hour 7 minutes 15 second. The …show more content…

The results also probably show that the smaller batteries had to use more force than the big batteries. An extraneous variable could have been that the tape making the poles and needle stay together got loose. Another extraneous variable is that the tape might not have been securely holding the needle and the top and bottom of the battery. The location of where the experiment was done could have made the results change. One of the observations was the C-Battery didn 't want to go at first but then started going fast. The D-Battey had some problems, it did not want to start spinning but after a few tries it started spinning. The C-battery also faced the same problems. The wire did not want to spin but ended up spinning really fast. The AA-battery faced no problem it just kept spinning. The AAA-battery like the D and C did not want to spin. The tape was loose so the motor did not want to spin. The tape was tightened and then it