Magnetic force surrounds a magnet and is caused by ...

electric charges in the atoms that make up the magnet lining up in the same way

tiny living cells that only live to put off a magnetic field

pieces of a rock originally from outer space that crashed here many years ago

Compasses work because...

its needle is a small magnet and it is pulled by Earth's magnetic field to point to the North Pole

it spins until you reach your destination at which time it will stop...so you know you are there

it knows where you want to go and it points you in that direction

if you know which way is north the compass will help you to walk that way

We know that the Earth acts as a large bar magnet because...

We see tiny magnetic minerals lined up to with the Earth's magnetic field in rocks of all ages

We asked it and there are people who can hear it answer

Scientists did a test in which they tried to repel a large bar magnet from the space station.

The north pole sticks up out of the ground near Norway and we can see it

What happens when two forces act in the same direction?

their sum divided by two is the net force

Trivia Questions On Types Of Force!

Physics

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