Bar magnets always point towards North-South direction. (True or False)
A
True
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B
False
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Solution
The correct option is A True
Magnetic lines:
The magnetic lines of force of a bar magnet run from the north to the south pole on the outside and from the south pole to the north pole on the interior.
Outside a permanent magnet, magnetic field lines always flow from the north magnetic pole to the south magnetic pole.
As a result, the earth's magnetic field lines run from the southern geographic hemisphere to the northern geographic hemisphere.
A permanent magnet's properties are comparable to those of a bar magnet.
At both ends, it has a north pole and a south pole.
If a thread is used to suspend this magnet in the air, it will not come to rest until the poles are oriented north-south.
This characteristic is used by a mariner's compass to calculate direction.
It has the strongest magnetic force at the pole.
Therefore, bar magnets always point in a North-South direction is true.