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True or false about magnets

Exercise and reference answers

Questions
  1. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    A magnet can be cut to leave a single north pole on its own.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Like magnetic poles repel and unlike poles attract.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The magnetic pole near the geographic North Pole is a south pole.
  4. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Magnetic field lines cross wherever two fields meet.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Magnetic field lines are continuous closed loops.
  6. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    A charge sitting still feels a force in a magnetic field.
  7. 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_
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