Magnetic materials
What Magnetic materials means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Materials such as iron, steel, cobalt or nickel that are attracted towards a magnet.
Iron, steel, cobalt and nickel, on which a force acts within the magnetic field.
Topics that use Magnetic materials
- Magnetic fields (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Alignment of a freely suspended magnet
- Attraction and repulsion
- Earth's magnetic field
- Field line direction
- Field lines
- Field strength
- Field strength and distance
- Induced magnetism
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