Question

A student fixes a sheet of white paper on a drawing board. He place a bar magnet at the centre of it. He sprinkles

some iron fillings uniformly around the bar magnet. Then he taps the board gently and observes that the iron

fillings arrange themselves in a particular pattern.

i. Why do the iron fillings arrange in a pattern?

ii. What is indicated by the crowding of iron fillings at the end of the magnet?

iii. What do the lines along which the iron fillings align represent?

iv. Draw a neat diagram to show the magnetic field lines around a bar magnet.

v. write the properties of magnetic field lines.​

Answer 1

Answer:

i)Why do the iron fillings arrange in a pattern?