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Understanding Magnets: Forces, Connections, and Gravity

This concise guide explores the fundamentals of magnets, detailing their properties, forces, and how they attract objects. We aim to uncover crucial questions about magnetism, such as what causes magnets to stick together, their internal structure, and how vector fields function. A comparative analysis with gravity illustrates similarities and differences between these forces. Key topics include the positive/negative sides of magnets, the mechanics of attraction, and an introduction to relevant YouTube resources for deeper learning.

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Understanding Magnets: Forces, Connections, and Gravity

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  1. Notes: Magnetic Forces

  2. Period 6: What we know about magnets: • Not sticky • There is a force when you put them together • They attract • They involve some force of gravity

  3. Period 7: What we know about magnets: • Negative/positive side • Put opposite sides together • Connect with each other • Stick together • Vector fields

  4. Period 6: What we want to learn about magnets: • How do they stick? • What causes the force for them to stick together? • How can they attract to what they stick to?

  5. Period 7: What we want to learn about magnets: • How do they connect? • What’s inside them? • How do you make a magnet? • How do vector fields work?

  6. What is a magnet? Video Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxx5kXT6kgs

  7. How are gravity & magnetism alike? • Earth’s gravity attracts objects near earth, just as a magnet attracts objects near it. • Both gravity & magnetism can exert forces on other bodies without touching them. • The size of the forces of gravity and magnetism on an object is inversely proportional to the distance between the objects.

  8. How are gravity & magnetism different? • Gravity is only an attraction between bodies. Gravity does not repel other bodies. • Gravity acts on all objects (matter), magnetism does not.

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