What is the definition of a magnet?
A magnet is an object that is capable of creating a magnetic field. All magnets must have at least one north pole, and one south pole. TOP of PAGE What can a magnet do? Most people are familiar with the basic traits of magnets, and know that they attract metal objects. Specifically, magnets attract objects made from iron, nickel, and cobalt. However magnets are used in many other ways due to the fact that they are able to effect electrically charged particles and electric conductors. Because of these properties, magnets are capable of converting electrical energy to mechanical energy, and vice-versa. Some practical uses of this capability are found in the thousands of different products that rely on magnets to operate, such as loudspeakers, generators, microphones, motors, eddy current and hysteresis torque devices, magnetic resonance equipment, sensors, gauges, switches etc. TOP of PAGE What is a magnetic field? A magnetic field is an area of space where there is a detectable magnetic
