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A bar magnet hanging on a string......?
High school experiment on a bar magnet hanging on a pice of string.
The bar magnets one end marked "N" points to the North, other end marked 'S' points to the South.
Experiment sucessful.
Question? Why North to North and South to South?
It seems the law of magnetism did not work. "Like poles repel and unlike poles attract" Please explain.
6 Answers
- PearlsawmeLv 72 decades agoFavorite Answer
In North pole of Earth there is South pole of Earth's magnet and in the South pole of Earth there is North pole of Earth's magnet.
- Anonymous2 decades ago
What u call as the North pole of the magnet was originally dubbed North-seeking pole. Actually, unlike that of a conventional Bar magnet, the magnetic field of the Earth starts out of the S-pole and converges into the N-pole. Hence the N-pole of ur magnet is repelled by the field to face north. This is only a controversy of misnomencalture, if u call it so.
- 2 decades ago
the north points north because the earth has a magnetic field by which the hanging bar magnet is affected.
it is only true that the magnet will point in the north south direction...if u randomly mark n and s on the magnet...it may not work! n may point south!
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- 2 decades ago
Originally, there is no "N" or "S" in the magnet. WHen the magnet stop spinning, it always poit one of it end to the North (of earth) and other other end to the South (of earth).
We then marked the one points to the North (of earth) "N" and the one points to the South (of earth) "S".
It just a marking to Tell us where is Norht and where is South.
- 2 decades ago
Very interesting.
Gravitational pull would play an important part in answering this question. The strength of the magnets should be equal to get and accurate account of the experiment.
