Anne is trying to attract her metal pencil box with a magnet from the other side

of her desk. The pencil box does not move. What is most likely true? *

The pencil box is repelling the force of the magnet.

O

The pencils inside the box are repelling the magnet.

O

The pencil box cannot move without touching the magnet

O

The pencil box is too far away from the magnet to make it move.

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Chemistry

Macie Oneill

12 March, 11:48

Anne is trying to attract her metal pencil box with a magnet from the other side

of her desk. The pencil box does not move. What is most likely true? *

The pencil box is repelling the force of the magnet.

O

The pencils inside the box are repelling the magnet.

O

The pencil box cannot move without touching the magnet

O

The pencil box is too far away from the magnet to make it move.

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Vanessa Stuart · Answer 1

The pencil box is too far away from the magnet to make it move.

Explanation:

The most likely scenario here is that the pencil box is too far away from the magnet to make it move.

A magnet has a force field around it which dictates the region where magnetic influences can be felt when a magnetic body is brought near it.

Outside the force field, a magnet has no effect on a magnetic body.

Since the magnet is not attracting or repelling the metallic box of pencils, they most be located outside the field of force of the magnet. When they are within the force field, repulsion or attraction occurs and the field draws the metal to itself or repel.

Objects that are far away from a magnetic source will feel no effect of the force field of a bar magnet.