AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy · 8464
Specification 6.7.1.2 · Paper 6
Revise: Magnetic FieldsThe object is within the magnet’s magnetic field: the region around a magnet where a force acts on another magnet or on a magnetic material.
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GCSE Combined Science · key term
A material, such as iron, steel, cobalt or nickel, that is attracted to a magnet and can become magnetised.
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Specification 6.7.1.2 · Paper 6
Revise: Magnetic FieldsThe object is within the magnet’s magnetic field: the region around a magnet where a force acts on another magnet or on a magnetic material.
Paper 5, Paper 6
A material that is attracted to a magnet and can become magnetised, such as iron, steel, cobalt or nickel.
Revise: Magnets, magnetic fields and compassesSteel contains iron and is also a magnetic material. Being a magnetic material is not the same as already being a magnet: an unmagnetised piece of iron is attracted to either pole of a magnet, but does not initially have fixed north and south poles of its own.
Attraction alone does not prove that an object is a magnet: an unmagnetised magnetic material is also attracted. Repulsion by a known magnet is evidence that the object is itself a magnet.
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