Question

vii) Write down the property of magnets using which direction can be found. Prove thisproperty with the help of an activity.​

Answer 1

Answer:

A freely suspended magnet always points in north-south direction This can be demonstrated with the help of a simple activity.

Activity

• Materials needed: A bar magnet, iron filings
• Method: Place the bar magnet in the heap of iron filings.
• Observation: Iron filings cling to the magnet. Also, the maximum amount of iron filings cling at the two ends of the bar magnet. These are the poles of the magnet.
• Inference: The Magnetic property of poles is more than the rest of the magnet. Poles of the magnet are those regions where the magnetic property is the maximum. The two poles are different. One pole of the magnet is the North pole and the other is the South Pole. Every magnet whether big or small has the North Pole and the South Pole