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The SI unit for magnetic field strength is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The tesla is named after which inventor?Read the answer and worked solution →Like magnetic poles behave in which way toward each other?Read the answer and worked solution →Isolated north and south magnetic poles are given which name?Read the answer and worked solution →Because magnetic monopoles are not observed, what is used to explain all magnetic effects?Read the answer and worked solution →Ferromagnetic materials are described as containing:Read the answer and worked solution →The regions within a ferromagnetic material called domains are said to act like:Read the answer and worked solution →It is described as impossible to separate north and south poles in the way that:Read the answer and worked solution →Earth is described as acting like a very large:Read the answer and worked solution →Earth's south-seeking magnetic pole lies near which geographic location?Read the answer and worked solution →The magnetic force on a charge moving in a magnetic field is often called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The magnitude of the magnetic force on a moving charge depends on the angle between the field and the:Read the answer and worked solution →A solenoid is described as a long coil of wire with:Read the answer and worked solution →The similarity noted between magnetic poles and electric charges is that unlike ones:Read the answer and worked solution →Cutting a bar magnet in half produces two magnets rather than two monopoles because:Read the answer and worked solution →A ferromagnetic material becomes strongly magnetic when its domains are:Read the answer and worked solution →A charge moving parallel to a magnetic field experiences a magnetic force that is:Read the answer and worked solution →All magnetic effects are explained using currents rather than poles because monopoles are:Read the answer and worked solution →Match each magnetism termRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: magnetismRead the answer and worked solution →Tap what magnetism does and does not haveRead the answer and worked solution →Stop on the right magnetism termRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the magnetism rulesRead the answer and worked solution →

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The SI unit for magnetic field strength is the:

  1. Tesla
  2. Ampere
  3. Coulomb
  4. Newton
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Correct answer: A. Tesla

1. Magnetic field strength has its own named unit. 2. Magnetic fields exert forces on moving charges. 3. The SI unit for magnetic field strength is called the tesla, written T. 4. It is named after the inventor Nikola Tesla. _Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 22 'Magnetism', sections 22.1-22.11_

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The tesla is named after which inventor?

  1. Andre Ampere
  2. Nikola Tesla
  3. Michael Faraday
  4. James Maxwell
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Correct answer: B. Nikola Tesla

1. Magnetic units carry the names of their investigators. 2. The SI unit for magnetic field strength is called the tesla. 3. It is named after the eccentric but brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla. 4. He lived from 1856 to 1943. _Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 22 'Magnetism', sections 22.1-22.11_

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Like magnetic poles behave in which way toward each other?

  1. They repel
  2. They attract
  3. They merge
  4. They vanish
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Correct answer: A. They repel

1. Magnetic poles behave much like electric charges. 2. Unlike poles attract, in the same way that unlike charges attract. 3. Like charges repel, and like magnetic poles do the same. 4. So two north poles pushed together will repel. _Source: OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 22 'Magnetism', sections 22.1-22.11_

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