A sure test for magnets is said to be by repulsion. So if two negatively charged magnetic materials repel each other, are both counted as magnets? I‘m confused by this part. Someone kind please explain? :) Thanksssssss!
To repel each other they must both be magnets (with the same poles closest ) if not they would attract as the one magnetised induces the opposite pole in the other.
here you go samantha . repulsion is the best example of magnetism because according to weber he cannot prove why copper attracts iron pecies when electricity is passed. even though copper attracts the iron piecec it cannot become a magnet. so everything which attrcts cannot become magnets. but which repulse everything can become magnets.and magentic materials are different from magnets . magnets can retain the property of magnetism for ever if you donot disturb the magnetism of the material . but magnetic materials are those which are attracted by the magnets . like iron . two negatively charged magnetic materials can repulse but they cannot become magnets as they cannot attract the materials withotu the presence of current . they are also called as electro magnets.
magnets have nothing to do with charges, of either polarity, at least not apparently. That is electrostatics. Every magnet has a north and a south pole. Two north poles or two south poles will repulse each other. So if you can align two pieces of metal such that there is a repulsion between them, then both must be magnets. The two magnets must not be of very different strengths, or the stronger will overcome the weaker one and always attract, see below. A magnet and a piece of iron or other ferromagnetic material, you will get attractive forces with either pole, as the magnet induces a magnetic pole of the opposite polarity in the iron.
