You are provided with two identical metal bars. One out of the two is a magnet. Suggest two ways to identify the magnet.

Solution:

There can be following ways to identify the magnet out of the two identical metal bars:

• By attracting iron filings to the magnet we get to know which is a
• By using another magnet. If it is a magnet, like poles will repel each other while unlike poles will attract each other.