Magnets and magnetic Feilds

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A magnet usually has two sides a north pole and a south pole, just like the earth. If you took two south poles on a magnet and tried to put them together they would repel each other, same thing if you did north and north. But if you tried to put together north and south together they would be attracted to each other. So same repel and opposites attract.

You can not touch a magnet's force. So magnetic forces can go through almost anything, wood aluminum, paper, books, fabric, shoes, backpacks, you name it. But if you want to disconnect a magnet all you have to do is add space the more space the weaker the force.

The earth is a magnet. The earth like a magnet has a northand a south pole. The earth once again like a magnet has a magnetic field. A magnetic field is made but magnetic forces coming out from one side and going into the other side or out the north pole and into the south pole this makes lines of magnetic forces on either side of the magnet this makes a magnetic field.

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WE conducted an experiment when we stacked text books and put a magnet in between them then we taped a paper clip that was attached to a rubber band to the table the textbooks were on then the magnet
made the paper clip stand up then we took pencils wood paper books anything that we could find and put it in between the magnet and the paper clip then if the paper clip feel down then meant that the magnetic force could not go through that object. But if the paper clip stayed standing then that meant that the magnetic force could go trough that object.