Guest Posted February 18, 2008 Report Share Posted February 18, 2008 Did anyone know that if you hang an iron rod from a string after a few days it will become magnetized, this is how natural magnets are formed when iron ore is lying north to south in the ground... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 If theirs no files or disks, then theirs no string! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 who cares rub the two together in the same direction over and over again and now you have 2 magnets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 After looking at the solution... I have one question.. If there is NOTHING In the room but the iron rods, where do the pieces of string come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 Can't you hold each iron rod close to your watch, one at a time, and see which affects it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 If there is NOTHING In the room but the iron rods, where do the pieces of string come from? Read the riddle again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 a magnet can make ur skin hair raise...so try to put the two rods near ur arm hair..if it somewhar raises...then it is a magnet..the other is not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 The bane of my existence has been small, powerful magnets. Why? Because they require a lot of control to work with. Why? Because without any control, they will pull themselves at high speeds towards each other or toward attractive objects, as is the want of magnets. Why is this a problem? Because they are extremely brittle, and they break quite easily when subjected to severe impact, the kind of impact that they can impart on themselves given their strong attractive force and small inertia. Now, you can make a magnet out of an iron rod or other stronger material, so this solution won't work if that is the case. I believe the best solution remains the "T" formation test which plays on the fact that all magnets are dipoles, but here's mine: Depending on the material from which the magnet is made, it's likely that the magnet will be far more brittle than the iron rod, and thus will break completely upon impact, or at least flake. So, bang the rods together. Whichever one breaks is probably your magnet. Depending on the size and shape of the magnet, you could potentially break it with your bare hands. The iron rod would bend long before it breaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 I've loved magnets since I was a kid. See which rod's end will stick to the midpoint of the other rod. If an end of rod A sticks to the midpoint of rod B, then rod A is a magnet and rod B is not. Think about it, or try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 accually hanging the rods ona string would not help because they will both point in a directin how are you sopposed to know which direction is north? so the obvious answer would be to take both poles... and with the pole in the right hand touch the top of the pole in the left hand with the top of the pole in the right hand... it will either stick or repel... not with the top of the pole in the right hand touch the botton of the pole in the left hand... if the magnet is in the right hand it will do the same as b4 either stick or repel... but if it in your left hand it will do the oposite That solution wouldn't work because it would attract both times no matter which hand the magnet was in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 when i read this, i literally jumped out of the computer chair because it is so easy.... You rub one stick with the other, and the one that becomes a magnet isn't the magnet...you can actually do this, im not making this up. I forgot what it is called, but it actually does work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 Read the riddle again. lol i love more cowbell... SNL baby!!! :D :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 28, 2008 Report Share Posted April 28, 2008 This can be solved with only these 2 items. I recall learning in elementary that you can magnetize a metal rod (rod B) by running a magnet (rod A) over it several times in the same direction. While, if you run a single point of a metal bar (B) over a magnet (A), the entire metal bar (B) will not become magnetized. By attempting to magnetize with the other, you could tell which one was the magnet (A), by simply attempting to get the polls to push away after trying to use one to magnetize the other. If you find that neither of the ends of the rod that had been ran over the other repels one end of the other rod, then you will know that the rod that was ran over the other was not a magnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2008 Report Share Posted May 15, 2008 accually hanging the rods ona string would not help because they will both point in a directin how are you sopposed to know which direction is north? so the obvious answer would be to take both poles... and with the pole in the right hand touch the top of the pole in the left hand with the top of the pole in the right hand... it will either stick or repel... not with the top of the pole in the right hand touch the botton of the pole in the left hand... if the magnet is in the right hand it will do the same as b4 either stick or repel... but if it in your left hand it will do the oposite The unmagnetized pole will stick to both sides of the magnet, it will never get repelled. this way would work if there were two magnets and three poles, but there aren't and that would be too easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 24, 2008 Report Share Posted May 24, 2008 I thought about this all day, and after coming up with a solution I was surprised to come home and read that the provided solution actually seemed much more complicated than the one I came up with, it's usually the other way around. Alternate solution: Break one or both rods and the one who's pieces attract or repel eachother is your magnet. that seems a whole lot easier and it would work! yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 (edited) This can be solved with only these 2 items. I recall learning in elementary that you can magnetize a metal rod (rod B) by running a magnet (rod A) over it several times in the same direction. While, if you run a single point of a metal bar (B) over a magnet (A), the entire metal bar (B) will not become magnetized. By attempting to magnetize with the other, you could tell which one was the magnet (A), by simply attempting to get the polls to push away after trying to use one to magnetize the other. If you find that neither of the ends of the rod that had been ran over the other repels one end of the other rod, then you will know that the rod that was ran over the other was not a magnet. Thankyou Timm, as I read the question this is exactly what I thought of as well. Assuming what you say is true about magnetising an iron rod (which I also learned), this is logically sound. Edited June 1, 2008 by robbo2050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 So would body piercings. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Well you rub the iron rods together so iron dust comes of. then you take this iron rod and you trom it over one of the rods. the rod which is magnetic will make lines from north to south in the iron dust and the non magnetic rod will not beckey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 hold it up to my face and see if it sticks. you see i have a plate in my jaw. it works with fridge magnets it should work with a regular magnet. in my case if it sticks it's a positive magnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 Pick up one of the rods, and hold it over the other one, without the two touching eachother. If the one that you picked up is the magnet, it will draw the other one up, if it's the one still on the floor, it will draw the one you're holding toward the floor. (I think....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 I think it wud work.Center of the magnet is nutral, so when we touch a rod to the center of other rod,if it sticks with it then the lying rod is iron rod ,otrherwise it is magnet rod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 this isn't quite a logic puzzle. magnetic rods have maximum attraction toward the ends and are neutral in the mid point. so, take the two rods and form a T. if the T stays, then the leg of the T is the magnet and the top of the metal. If the T doesn't stay, then the leg of the T is the metal and the top of the magnet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Hopefully you're wearing pants, and theres a magnet, so you can just find out by putting your pants up to the pole lmfao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 Magnets do not react with room temperature. The colder one is the metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 Isnt pitch affected by magnetism? Also im pretty sure licking a magnet is diffrent than licking a metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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