Magnetic forces take center stage in a series of fascinating tricks and experiments that reveal their hidden potential. Each demonstration highlights unique reactions, showing how magnets interact ...

This short film is from the BBC Teach series experiments ... Science curricula. Pupils will observe that magnets can act at a distance. Pupils will observe that materials containing iron are magnetic.

Have you heard the phrase opposites attract? That's definitely the case with magnets. Magnets have a north pole and a south pole. If you put the north ...

The two magnetic fields overlap and slow the fall of the magnet. The science behind this braking force was described in the 19th century by physicist Heinrich Lenz who devised Lenz's law.

Rowland believes himself to have been more forlunate than his predecessor, and describes an experiment which apparently proves a permanent effect of a magnet on the, distribution of currents in a ...