Suppose you are given a long bar magnet and you are asked to break it into four small magnets. Draw diagrams showing the polarities of each broken part.

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Solution

If we cut a long bar magnet into four pieces then every four pieces will become four completely new magnets. All the four new magnets will have both the north pole (N) and south pole (S) as shown in the figure.

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