How to make an electric motor?
How can we build it and put it to work? How can we use them? How should they be assembled? And, most important of all, how and why does it all work? What is truly indispensable to make an electric motor work?

On Saturday, 20th March, at 11:00, Pedro Brogueira, Técnico professor (Department of Physics) and researcher at CeFEMA – Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials, will go live on Técnico facebook to answer these questions while he builds a simple electric motor.

Please send us your questions ahead of time to explicame@tecnico.ulisboa.pt, including your name and age, or join us live on Facebook.

ABOUT THE TALKS
“Explain it like I’m 5 – talks at Técnico for children and other curious people of all ages” is designed for young people opening a door to get to know Técnico research and the possibility to ask our scientists a question- even at a distance. Older people can come as well, if the children let them.

20th March 2021 – Ep.17
Pedro Brogueira, Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA).

• Next talk
  17th April 2021 (Ep.18)
  João Ventura, Centre for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+)

• Past talks

• 23rd May, 11:00
  What if I want to build a robot? | Video – Ep.1
  Isabel Ribeiro, Institute for Systems and Robotics, ISR Lisboa
• 6th June, 11:00
  Is zero an odd or even number? | Video – Ep.2
  Ana Moura Santos, Center for Functional Analysis, Linear Structures and Applications, CEAFEL
• 20th June, 11:00
  Does the Universe have an end? | Video – Ep.3
  Pedro Abreu, Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, LIP
• 4th July, 11:00
  Does air belong to all of us? | Video – Ep.4
  Marta Almeida, Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies, C2TN
• 18th July, 11:00
  Is there life in other planets? | Video – Ep.5
  Zita Martins, Centro de Química Estrutural, CQE
• 5th September, 11:00
  Can machines think? | Video – Ep.6
  Arlindo Oliveira, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa,INESC-ID
• 19th September, 11:00
  Can a cat make a computer run faster? | Video – Ep.7
  Yasser Omar, Instituto de Telecomunicações, IT
• 3rd October, 11:00
  What is space made of? | Video – Ep.8
  Ricardo Schiappa, Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems, CAMGSD
• 17th October, 11:00
  What colour was Napoleon’s white horse? | Video – Ep.9
  Ana Mourão, Center for Astrophysics and Gravitation, CENTRA
• 31st October, 11:00
  Why do molecules like to flirt in tight spaces? | Video – Ep.10
  Moisés Pinto, Centre for Natural Resources and Enviroment, CERENA
• 14th November, 15:00
  Why does the earth shake? | Video – Ep. 11
  Mónica Amaral Ferreira, Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, CERIS
• 28th November, 15:00
  Why do fireflies light up? | Video – Ep.12
  Vasco Bonifácio, Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, iBB
• 12th December, 15:00
  Which things are things made of? | Video – Ep.13
  Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas, Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas, CFTP.
• What’s the brightest light ever? |  14
  Gonçalo Figueira, Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion (IPFN)

More information about the programme – explicame.tecnico.ulisboa.pt.

These talks are organised by the Science Communication Group at Técnico – “ComunicaCiencia”. Science Communication Group – Research Units

Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry, and Dynamical Systems (CAMGSD)
Marine, Environment and Technology Center (MARETEC)
Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (C2TN)
Centre for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+)
Center for Functional Analysis, Linear Structures and Applications (CEAFEL)
Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC)
Centre for Management Studies (CEG-IST)
Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA)
Centre for Theoretical Particle Physics (CFTP)
Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics (CEMAT)
Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE)
Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente (CERENA)
INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies (INESC-MN)
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (iBB)
Mechanical Engineering Institute (IDMEC)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID)
Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion (IPFN)
Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa)
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)
Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS)
Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP).