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Q: What happen to a metal paper cilp when you bring it near a magnet?
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What will happen to the paper clip when a sheet is placed between the bar magnet and the paper clip?

Magnetic filed of the bar magnet will penetrate a paper. Hence the clip will be attracted and stick to the magnet pressing the paper too to the magnet.


Do you expect paper clips to be attracted or not attracted to a magnet?

yes because paper clips are made of metal


If you have a a magnet stuck to the nail then a paper clip stuck to the nail then you take the magnet away and the nail in the paper clip are still together why did that happen?

this happens because the magnet has magnetised the nail


Does a magnet need to touch the paper clips to excert and attractive force?

You need to do the experiment. If the magnet is strong enough, metal (steel, iron) will jump to the magnet (or pull the magnet towards it).


How do you loosen the hold of a magnet from metal?

Put an object like pieces of paper inbetween.


A magnet and a metal paper clip have the strongest magnetic attraction when the distance between them is?

Zero - that is, when they are touching. The strength of the magnetic force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the magnet and the paper clip.


Is magnetism a metal or non metal?

Most magnets are made largely out of iron, which is a metal. Though steel magnets may have carbon in them, which is a nonmetal.


What can happen when you rub a magnet on a paper clip?

A paper clip is made up of iron or steel. It consists of particles called domains which are randomly arranged. When a magnet is rubbed on a paper clip, the domains arrange themselves in one direction. Thus it gets magnetized and behaves as a magnet.


What is the effect of a paper clip on to a magnet?

Well, there are two poles to a magnet. A negative one and a positive one. Since metals are good conductors of charge and the paper clip is a metal object, they will attract. The charge of the paperclip is opposite the charge to one of the poles of the magnet.


How do paperclips stick to magnets?

They are kind of like a force around each other. They are negative and positive pulls. As you hold a paper clip to a magnet its an invisible field around the paperclip and the magnet. The paper clip also has magnet attracted metal so it will stick.


What is the centimeters when the magnet and metal paper clip is a strong magnetic?

The least # of centimeters, the greater the magnetic attraction.


How come you can lift a paper clip with a magnet without touching it?

magnet attracts iron. paper clip made of iron magnet atrracts paper clip...