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Explain what happens to the potential energy when you move repelling magnets against

the magnetic force?

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bringing two magnets together in such a way that they repel each other, you store potential energy E p o t. This is correct. The force will be the according derivative F = − d E p o t / d x, which does not depend on the mass

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