Can magnetic fields be bent?

Like plastic drinking straws or plant stems, magnetic field lines don’t like to be bent. When you bring together the north poles of two magnets, they repel one another because the field lines get squashed up. Likewise, if space is distorted by gravity, magnetic field lines try to straighten it out again.

Can a magnetic field distort light?

Although a magnetic field doesn’t affect the photons of light directly, a magnet can distort the medium through which light passes and thereby “bend” the light rays. Light travels through space-time along a geodesic – the shortest possible path between two points on a curved surface.

What would happen to a magnetic field if the magnetic strength of the magnet increased?

Faraday’s Law of Induction So how much voltage (emf) can be induced into the coil using just magnetism. Increasing the strength of the magnetic field – If the same coil of wire is moved at the same speed through a stronger magnetic field, there will be more emf produced because there are more lines of force to cut.

Why does a nail stick to a magnet?

The nail will stick to the bar magnet because it will become magnetized. The presence of the nearby north pole rearranges the magnetic domains inside the steel so that their south poles all point toward the north pole of the permanent magnet. Science Behind It: Iron and most steels contain magnetic domains.

Are magnetic field lines closed curves?

Magnetic field lines are closed curves because it starts from the north pole and terminates at the south pole of the magnet.

Why magnetic field lines are known as non terminating curves?

A magnetic field has no sources or sinks (Gauss’s law for magnetism), so its field lines have no start or end: they can only form closed loops, extend to infinity in both directions, or continue indefinitely without ever crossing itself.