Worksheet 1.3

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Date:__________________________________

1.

What did you observe when you sprinkled the iron filings over the paper covering the bar magnet? Draw what you observed.

 

 

 

2.

Can you explain why the iron filings behaved that way?

 

 


3.

Do you see the same patterns as you did with the compass tracings?

 

 


4.

Draw what you expect to see when you sprinkle iron filings over two bar magnets in a new configuration.

 

 


5.

Draw what you did, in fact, see with your two magnets in the new configuration. How were your expectations the same or different?

 

 


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