Question

What is magnet ? Mention the basic properties of magnet.

Answer 1

1. An object which is capable of producing a magnetic field and attracting unlike poles and repelling like poles known as a magnet.
2. These are the important properties of the magnet

• Magnets will attract ferromagnetic substances.
• Like poles of the magnet repel each other and unlike poles attract each other.
• A suspended magnet always comes to rest in the north-south direction.
• The poles of the magnet are in pairs.