If you hold a bar magnet in each hand and bring your hands close together, will the force be attractive or repulsive if the magnets are held in the following ways? a. the two north poles are brought close together. b. a north pole and a south pole are brought together.

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2022-08-20

If you hold a bar magnet in each hand and bring your hands close together, will the force be attractive or repulsive if the magnets are held in the following ways? a. the two north poles are brought close together. b. a north pole and a south pole are brought together.

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Alyvia Marks

Alyvia Marks

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We need to determine whether the magnets Will attract or repulse of they are held:
north pole to north pole
north pole to south pole
In the first scenario the magnets are brought together on the same poles. Same poles repulse which means that the magnets will repulse each other.
In the second scenario the magnets are brought together on the opposite poles.
Opposite poles attract which means that the magnets will attract each other.

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