Magnetism is a force that can attract or repel magnetic objects like iron. It is a property of materials that are attracted to magnets. Magnetic materials include iron, steel, nickel and cobalt and can be made into magnets. Non-magnetic materials like wood and plastic are not attracted to magnets. There are different types of magnetism including permanent magnets that retain magnetism, temporary magnets that are only magnetic in magnetic fields, and electromagnetism involving electric currents and magnetic fields. Ferromagnetism is responsible for common magnets and involves iron, cobalt and nickel.
Magnetism is a force that can attract or repel magnetic objects like iron. It is a property of materials that are attracted to magnets. Magnetic materials include iron, steel, nickel and cobalt and can be made into magnets. Non-magnetic materials like wood and plastic are not attracted to magnets. There are different types of magnetism including permanent magnets that retain magnetism, temporary magnets that are only magnetic in magnetic fields, and electromagnetism involving electric currents and magnetic fields. Ferromagnetism is responsible for common magnets and involves iron, cobalt and nickel.
Magnetism is a force that can attract or repel magnetic objects like iron. It is a property of materials that are attracted to magnets. Magnetic materials include iron, steel, nickel and cobalt and can be made into magnets. Non-magnetic materials like wood and plastic are not attracted to magnets. There are different types of magnetism including permanent magnets that retain magnetism, temporary magnets that are only magnetic in magnetic fields, and electromagnetism involving electric currents and magnetic fields. Ferromagnetism is responsible for common magnets and involves iron, cobalt and nickel.
Magnetism is a force that can attract or repel magnetic objects like iron. It is a property of materials that are attracted to magnets. Magnetic materials include iron, steel, nickel and cobalt and can be made into magnets. Non-magnetic materials like wood and plastic are not attracted to magnets. There are different types of magnetism including permanent magnets that retain magnetism, temporary magnets that are only magnetic in magnetic fields, and electromagnetism involving electric currents and magnetic fields. Ferromagnetism is responsible for common magnets and involves iron, cobalt and nickel.
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Magnetism
In physics, magnetism is a force that
can attract (pull closer) or repel (push away) objects that have a magnetic material like iron inside them (magnetic objects). The power of attraction between two elements is called magnetism. In simpler words it is a property of certain substances which pull closer or repel other objects. Magnetic materials are matter that is attracted by magnets. It attracts opposite poles and repel same poles.
Magnetic and Non-Magnetic
Materials
Magnetic Material: Magnetic materials are matter that is
attracted by magnets. Magnetic materials can be made into magnets. e. g: Iron, steel, nickel, cobalt and many alloys based on these metals.
Non-Magnetic Materials: Non-magnetic materials are
matter that is not attracted by magnets. Non-magnetic materials
cannot be made into magnets. e. g: Wood, glass, plastics and metals such as copper and brass.
Types of Magnetism 1.
Permanent Magnet:
Permanent magnets are
those we are most familier with, such as the magnets hanging onto our refrigerator
doors. They are permanent in the sense that once they are magnetized, they retain a level of magnetism.
Temporary Magnet
Temporary magnets are
those which act like a permanent magnet when they are within a strong magnetic field, but lose their magnetism when the magnetic field disappears. Examples would be paperclips and nails and other soft iron items.
Electromagnetism
Electricity and magnetism are
two aspects of electromagnetism. Magnetism produced by an electric current, and electric current produced by a changing magnetic field. The branch of physics that deals with the interaction of electric and magnetic fields.
Ferromagnetism Ferromagnetismis the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such asiron) formpermanent magnets, or are attracted tomagnets. Ferromagnetismis the strongest type: it is the only one that typically creates forces strong enough to be felt, and is responsible for the common phenomena of magnetism inmagnets encountered in daily life. Ferromagnetism is a kind of magnetism that is associated with iron, cobalt, nickel, and some alloys or compounds containing one or more of these elements.
General Properties of Magnetism
All the magnets have two types of poles: north-seeking
poles or north poles and south-seeking poles or south poles. The magnetic strength is the strongest at the poles of the magnet. When you freely suspend a bar magnet in a horizontal position, the magnetic field of the bar magnet will interact with the magnetic field of the Earth. This will cause the bar magnet to come to rest in a north-south direction, where the north pole of the magnet points to the north pole of the Earth.
Properties of Magnets
Like poles repel and unlike poles attract. (just as
like charges repel and unlike charges attract). Magnets attract magnetic materials such as iron, steel, cobalt and nickel. The stronger a magnet, thelarger will be the attractive or repulsive force between other magnets. The closer together the two magnetsare, the greater is the magnetic force between them.
Induction
When a magnet is passed
through a coil of wire, it produces an electric current . The direction of the flow of the current depends on the direction on which the magnet moves. In the above diagram, the current flow from right to left and in the bottom diagram, the current flows from left to right.
Magnetic Flux and Magnetic field
Magnetic Flux: A measure of the quantity of magnetism, being the total number of magnetic lines of force passing through specified area in a magnetic fiel d.
Magnetic Field: A region around a magnetic material
or a moving electric charge within which the force of magnetism acts is called magnetic field.
Hall Effect and Flux Density
Hall Effect: The production of a potential difference
across a conductor carrying an electric current when a magnetic field is applied in a direction perpendicular to that of the current flow.
Flux Density: Flux Density (B) is defined as the force
acting per unit current per unit length on a wire placed at right angles to the magnetic field.
