Answer to Question #134961 in Electricity and Magnetism for Joseph Victor

Question

A piece of iron was found along the street of london by a school boy. At what angle should the iron be hammered into the ground inoder to make it a magnet?

Answer 1

Solution

According to theory to making a piece of iron (try to take it any bar form) into magnet, firstly put this piece vertically or in direction of the North.

Now further hit or strike many number of times its one end by using Hammer, finally this piece of iron changed into a magnet.