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Explain with diagram what happens when a bar magnet is cut into two pieces.
(a) Along its magnetic axis
(b) Along its magnetic equator

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a

From (a) and (b) we can conclude the new poles exist at cut part of a bar magnet because each molecule acts as a tiny magnet.
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