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Grade 11General Physics

This logic puzzle was published in Martin Gardner's column in the Scientific American. You are in a room with no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet.
How can you identify which one is a magnet?

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11 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Neeti
11 Years ago
Repulsion is a sure test of magnetism.
But you can also do it this way,
Let first rod be A and second be B, Both perpendicular to each other. Bring the end of rod A to the middle of the other rod B (keeping both perpendicular to each other).
Now bring end of B to middle of A. if in first case there is attractive force but not in second case, it means B is magnetic. ( understand how magnetic rod’s middle part would be magnetic but not for the non magnetic rod and that concept is applied hee)
 
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