Question

Question 8

You are given an iron strip. How will you make it into a magnet?

Answer 1

To make the iron strip into a bar magnet, follow the steps given below.

i) Take the piece of iron bar.
ii) Take a bar magnet and keep in contact with one of its poles with one edge of the
bar of iron.
iii) Without breaking the contact, move the bar magnet along the length of the iron bar till you
reach the other end.
iv) Lift the magnet and bring the pole (the same pole you started with) to the same point of the iron bar from which you began
v) Move the magnet again along the iron bar in the same direction as you did before.
Repeat this process about 30 - 40 times.
vi) Bring few pins near to the iron bar and check if it is converted to a magnet or not.