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Q: Why should you place a piece of paper between the magnet and the substances?
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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.


Can a magnet attract a paper clip with a card broad between which other?

No, a magnet will not be able to attract a paper clip that has a cardboard between them. The cardboard will act as a barrier, preventing the magnetic force from reaching the paper clip.


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.


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...


Does paper have a large amount of iron in it?

Yes - if you can pick it up with a magnet, it has iron in it. That is why they call substances you can pick up with a magnet "ferromagnetic" - ferrous (the ferro part of ferromagnetic) is Latin meaning (roughly) "of iron", or "containing iron".


WHICH IS MORE POWERFUL GRAVITY OR MAGNETISM?

Well, let's see. If I have a paper clip on a table and a magnet in my hand, and I slowly pass the magnet over the paper clip, the magnet in my hand is pulling the paper clip up with magnetism. If my magnet is close enough to the paper clip, the paper clip will jump up to the magnet ... even though the whole Earth is pulling it down with gravity.


What is the force called that moves paper clips toward a magnet without the magnet touching the paper clips?

A magnetic force.


Do the magnetic lines of force actually exist explain?

Yep they are called lines of flux, I believe. While invisible to the naked eye, like wind, we can see their effects. If you have iron shavings and a bar magnet, place the bar magnet on a piece of paper, then sprinkle the iron shavings all over the paper. The vast majority of them should line up along the lines of flux between the north and south pole of the magnet.


What does a magnent do to a paper clip?

The paper clip clings to the the magnet


Why the bar magnet attracts the paper clip with more force?

probably because the paper clip weighs less against the magnet


Jeremy has a strong magnet He put a paper clip on his desk and held the magnet sixteen centimeters over the paper clip If the paper clip has a mass of 1 gram and the magnet exerts a force of 0.012?

12 m/s2


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