True or false about magnets
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- A magnet can be cut to leave a single north pole on its own.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Like magnetic poles repel and unlike poles attract.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The magnetic pole near the geographic North Pole is a south pole.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Magnetic field lines cross wherever two fields meet.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Magnetic field lines are continuous closed loops.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- A charge sitting still feels a force in a magnetic field.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Heating iron past 1043 K destroys its magnetization.
- Instructions
- Swipe right for true, left for false.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax College Physics, section 22.1 Magnets_