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Second part of the experiments

Materials:
A piece of paper.
Metallic dust (comes in most magnet kits)
One bar magnet.


1. Lay the paper over the magnet.
2.  Sprinkle the metal dust over the paper.
3.  Do this until a pattern is shown.
4.  Notice a looping pattern?
5.  Draw a diagram of the magnet and the patterns.
6.  What do you think is making the pattern?

 

What did we learn from this?
1. That Magnets effect certain items which are close to them.
2. Magnets have a force field around them.
 


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November of 1999
 

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