Question

The real rest of a magnet is _______________.

Answer 1

Repulsion................

Answer 2

Answer:

The real rest of a magnet is North-South direction.

Explanation:

When we take a bar magnet and freely suspend it, it rests in the north south direction, which is almost similar to the geographical north south direction (a slight deviations is present). One of the famous theory put forward for it is that the earth is like a big bar magnet and its north pole is in the geographical south and vice versa.

Now as the same poles repel and opposite poles attract, therefore due to magnetic field of the earth a freely suspended magnet rests in North south direction.