Properties of a Magnet
Properties of a Magnet: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Poles of Magnet, Location of the Poles of a Magnet, North Seeking End of a Magnet, South Seeking End of a Magnet, Methods to Make a Magnet, Attraction between unlike Poles of Magnets, etc.
Important Questions on Properties of a Magnet
Why does the bulk of iron fillings slick to the ends of a bar magnet and not at its centre?
What happens when two magnets are kept near by? How can it be avoided?
Which of the following are the precaution to be done when horse shoe magnet is stored?
Keep a piece of iron over the ends for a horse-shoe magnet is one of the precaution to be done when horse shoe magnet is stored.
What are the precautions to be followed in storing magnets?
What are magnets? How many types of magnets are there?
The maximum strength of a magnet is at its _____ (poles/center).
Like poles of magnets ______ (attract/repel) each other.
What is the surest test of magnetism? (Choose from attraction or repulsion).
Gold and copper can be used to made a magnet.
Magnets are made from alloys of iron, cobalt and nickel.
Whether under contact or without contact, the polarity of the magnet produced by induction will be unlike polarity at the farther end and like polarity at the nearer end.
The phenomenon of a magnetic substance acquiring magnetism due to the presence of a magnet is
Freely suspended magnet always come to rest in east-west direction.
_____ poles of a magnet attract each other.
(Choose from the following: Unlike/ Like)
Show by experiment that unlike poles of magnet attract each other?
There is attraction between like poles of a magnet.
