Break a magnet bar?

Question

Whats happen if we break a maget par in to two pieces. Are the parts attract each other in the way we broke them??

Answer 1

no they wont. although theoritically they should appear, they wont attract exactly from where we broke them. this is due to the fact that the magnetic poles donot reside at the extreme end, they reside some distance away from the ends. if you cut it exactly along its cross sectional area than they attract and will tend to join at the same place where we have cut it.

Answer 2

Each little piece, no matter how big or small, will become a complete magnet with two poles, positive and negative. They will act like all magnets, all positive poles attract negative poles and repell the same. The magnet will not necessarily reassemble itself in the same order (if it was broken into many pieces, i.e. pieces will not have memory of order)

Answer 3

I think you are asking if there are such things as monopoles -- meaning something that is purely positve attraction or negative attraction. The answer is no. Sometimes physicist think they have found a monopole but so far nothing has happened.

You will get two smaller magnets.

Answer 4

It becomes two magnets and so would behave like any two magnets. Of course, during breaking, the magnet/s could lose some of their strength,

Answer 5

yes. at the break one end would still be positive and the other would be negative.

Answer 6

yes