Electricity and Magnetism -- Magnetic Field

Mapping the magnetic field, continued

There are many different kinds of magnets, and many ways to put them in combinations. Each will have its own distinctive magnetic field map. For example

One of the round magnets, standing on edge (not lying flat)
Two bar magnets that have been allowed to stick together end-to-end
Two bar magnets that have been allowed to stick together side by side
Two bar magnets taped together the wrong way -- so that they would fly apart if the tape were not there.

Make the field map for some of these -- enough that you begin to see the general features that these maps have, so that you could predict what the map would look like for other combinations of magnets.

Check the box when you are done:
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