alleryA freely suspended bar magnet settles pointing:
ANorth and south
BEast and westward
CStraight upward
DStraight downward
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. North and south
1. The Earth itself behaves like a large magnet.
2. A free magnet lines up with that field.
3. It points in the north-south direction.
4. So the answer is north and south.
_Source: syllabus Physics, Ch 5 'Magnetism and Matter'_
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