# Basic Electricity: 11 -- Motors and Generators

Consultant, James M. McGrath, Lane Technical High School, Chicago

Covers "dart notation" and direction of current; experiment with free-moving wire in magnetic field; diagrammatic explanation of motor effect; the "right-hand rule"; diagrammatic explanation of loop of wire in magnetic field; the commutator; practical demonstration of simple motor; the generator; and "left-hand rule."

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1982
- By: International Film Bureau
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/basicelectricity11motorsandgenerators)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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