Section: Magnets and Magnetic Fields

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Section: Magnets and Magnetic Fields

1. Draw and label the orientation of two bar magnets that would attract each other and two bar magnets that would repel each other.

2. Determine how many north poles and south poles there are when you break a permanent magnet in half and then break each half in half.

3. Draw the magnetic field for the permanent magnet shown below, and draw the direction a compass needle would point at each point indicated.

4. Compare the strength of the magnetic field near one pole of a bar magnet with the strength of the magnetic field farther away from the magnet.

5. Determine which direction you are facing if the needle of a compass you are holding points directly to your left. Explain your answer.

6. Describe the movement of a compass needle that is free to rotate in any direction as you fly straight from the magnetic north pole to the magnetic south pole.

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