alleryA freely suspended bar magnet comes to rest pointing in which direction?
ANorth-north
BNorth-south
CNorth-east
DNorth-west
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. North-south
1. The Earth itself behaves as a magnet.
2. A free magnet lines up with that field.
3. When a bar magnet is freely suspended, it points in the north-south direction.
4. So the answer is north-south.
_Source: syllabus Physics Part I, Ch 5 'Magnetism and Matter'_
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