why do like poles repel????????

Answer 1

actually this question can be explained better with a diagram of magnetic field lines. but ill try anyway, look, a magnet has magnetic field lines which indicates the magnetic force around it. two north poles will have the same direction of magnetic fields, agree? now, if you place two north poles side by side, the direction will be same. then, if you place them one in front of the other, you will notice that the lines are against each other... i hope you got it.... so, they end up pushing each other away... that's how it works..... i explained as best as i could.

Answer 2

Because the magnetic lines coming out of the pole has a specifice directionSo when u close two similar poles together, thier lines moves in the opposite direction to each other so they repel and when u close two different poles together, thier lines moves in the same direction so they attract

Answer 3

It is not so that like poles repel. It is that they are actually attracted by unlike poles of the earth's magnetic SN axis. It just appears that like poles repel each other. Don't beleive your eyes or speculations. Have your own innovations my friend !

Answer 4

Tough question needs a " Tough Guy "

Becouse the magnetic lines coming out of the pole has a specifice direction
So when u close two similar poles together, thier lines moves in the opposite direction to each other so they repel
And when u close two different poles together, thier lines moves in the same direction so they attract

Answer 5

it is said in first property that like poles repel and different poles attract .
for example,
electricity and magnetism are closely related .
in the magnetism north pole and south exist
similarly in the electricity,
negativecharge and positive charge exist

Answer 6

It's the law of the world -- likes repel and unlikes attract -- in almost all things. Good question, haven't ever stopped to wonder why things are the way they are.

Answer 7

Because opposite charges attract, and same charges repel.

It's like trying to take 2 televisions and use the socket plugs to plug them into eachother, you can't, you need the socket, the male and female if you like.

Answer 8

According to one theory, it has to do with the collective similarity of the spin of a subatomic particle called the magnetron.

Magnetrons which are not spinning along the same axis in the same direction counterbalence each other to where there is no net effect on the spin of neighoring atoms, but, when multiple magnetrons align their spin in the same direction, they either attract all like-spinning and counterbalanced magnetons, or they repulse magnetrons that are spinning in the opposite direction.

As to why they do that... I haven't learned enough about it to explain it.

Answer 9

like poles always repel each other becoz they the magnetic field in the same direction they have almost same properties which make them apart,,,,,......................N N replsion

Answer 10

It is due to electron spin. Were you to visit http://360.yahoo.com/noddarc there is a short writing entitled "Magnetism and Gravity" that explains magnetic lines. Another writing on the same site "Earth's Magnetic Field" also deals with magnetism. click on "visit blog" then on "list view" and scroll down.