Explanation: The air around the lamp heats up. 6. Explanation: The air around the lamp heats up. Carefully balance the circle at the center of the spiral on the pin. As the air rises it applies pressure to the underside of the blades.

Hold the string and position your spiral over the lamp.

Heat causes air to rise by convection.

Angélique Boissonneault Make sure you don’t put the plate into the flame! Heat is a form of energy, and it makes the air right above the candle rise above the colder air around it.This rising hot air pushes up against the blade above it. Since hot air is lighter (less dense) than cold air, the air that surrounds the lamp rises and pushes on your spiral , causing it to spin . The hot air will rise up and some air will rise up the to the spiral and thus, it will cause the spiral to spin. Since hot air is lighter (less dense) than cold air, the air that surrounds the lamp rises and pushes on your spiral, causing it to spin. It turns!

How does lighting the candles make the candle carousel spin? Make sure you are very careful not to touch the candle or the flame. Ask a grown up to light the candle for you. The surrounding air will get heated up by the burning fame of the candle. This causes the paper spiral to spin. The work is used to spin the carousel. How does the heat from the candle cause the spiral to spin? It should hang down in a spiral around the skewer and the candle. Not only is this a pretty decoration or a lovely, old-fashioned gift, but it is a heat-powered motor and a teaching tool. If you are going to use this to teach, the learning objective is to demonstrate how heat energy from convection is converted to work. The candle's flame heats up the air above the candle.