1. What Are Magnets?

2. Magnets

3. I want to learn how magnets push or pull objects.

5. Magnets A magnet is an object that attracts iron or steel objects.
When objects attract, they pull toward each other.
If an object and a magnet attract each other, the object is magnetic.

6. Most magnetic objects have a metal in them called iron.

9. How can you find out if an object is magnetic?
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10. How are magnetic and nonmagnetic objects different?
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11. Do you remember what a force is?

12. Did you know that magnets act on each other!

14. All magnets have forces that act on other magnets.
The force between two magnets can either be a push or a pull.
The poles are the places on a magnet where the forces are strongest.
All magnets have 2 poles.
A magnet does not have to touch an object to push or pull it.

15. On some magnets, the poles are labeled N for north pole and S for south pole.
2 unalike poles will attract each other.
2 like poles will repel.
When a magnet repels, it pushes an object away from itself.

17. How do repel and attract compare?
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