Fun With Magnets - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
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Q1: How can you make an iron strip into a magnet?
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Take a bar magnet and place its pole near one edge of the iron bar. Without lifting the bar magnet, move it along the length of iron bar. Move the magnet again along the iron bar. Repeat it 30-40 times. Check whether it has become a magnet. If not continue the process for some more time.
Q2: How was magnet discovered?
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It is said that magnet was discovered in Greece. A shepherd name Magnes used to take a stick with him to control his heard. One day he was surprised to see that he had to pull hard to free his stick from a rock on the mountainside. The rock was natural magnet and it attracted iron tip of shepherd’s stick.
