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Magnets and Magnetism

Question 3 • Crowley Credit Recovery Physics B

Magnetic field lines travel around a bar magnet in .

Answer
A
a closed loop
B
an open arc

Explanation

Magnetic field lines always form continuous closed loops. Outside a bar magnet, they travel from the north pole to the south pole, and inside the magnet they return from south to north. So the correct choice is a closed loop; an open arc would leave the field line without a complete path.

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