Magnets And Springs Fact Sheet
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1
2All magnets have two poles –
a South pole and a North pole.
You can see them marked on
these pictures.
Unlike poles attract and pull in the direc-
tion of the arrows.
Like poles repel and push away from each
other in the direction of the arrows.
Springs are elastic.
This spring is
This spring is
These metal objects are
After being
being squashed in
being stretched in
attracted to this horseshoe
stretched or
the direction of the
the direction of the
magnet.
squashed the
red arrows. The
red arrows. The
internal forces pull
blue arrows show
blue arrows show
Not all metals are magnetic.
or push to try to
the direction of the
the direction of the
Do you know which metals
return the spring to
internal forces.
internal forces.
are?
its original shape
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