alleryStart learning →Like magnetic poles behave in which way toward each other?
AThey repel
BThey attract
CThey merge
DThey vanish
Answer & Solution
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_
Keep practising Magnetism
Browse all Magnetism questions for AP Physics 2, or explore more Physics topics.
Related questions
Complete the magnetism rulesStop on the right magnetism termTap what magnetism does and does not haveTrue or false: magnetismMatch each magnetism termAll magnetic effects are explained using currents rather than poles because monopoles are:A charge moving parallel to a magnetic field experiences a magnetic force that is:A ferromagnetic material becomes strongly magnetic when its domains are: