Question

Simulate a magnet sticking to a metal door. The side that is against the door, means that side is the pulling side, and must be the inwards movement of a toroidal magnetic field, pulling the object inwards resulting in getting stuck to the object! Does this mean, the side that is against the object is the side where the field goes in through the magnet and will always be the actual South pole of any magnet? When the magnet is flipped onto the object, the field is in the opposite direction pushing against the object, which will be the North pole of that magnet. Does this mean that when holding a magnet and you can diffirentiate between the actual physical pushing and pulling side of a magnet, them to know that the pushing side must be North and the pulling side must be South? This has Nothing to do with: Stringing the magnet and it will find magnetic North or South and zero to do with earths magnetic field direction, but everything to do with the toroidal magnetic field of the magnet itself and which direction the magnets toroidal field flows?

Answer 1

In Physics, a magnet sticks to a metal door due to opposite magnetic poles attracting each other. The side of the magnet sticking to the door cannot be universally identified as the South pole because both North and South poles attract ferromagnetic materials. Earth's magnetic field and a compass also illustrate the interactions between magnetic North and South poles.

Step-by-step explanation:

The discussion of how a magnet adheres to a metallic surface and the identification of magnetic poles relates to Physics. In the case of magnets sticking to objects like a metal door, typically, it is not accurate to refer to the 'pulling' side as the South pole and the 'pushing' side as the North pole universally. Rather, the side of the magnet that is attracted to the door will be the one opposite the magnetic material's polarity it is attracting to. This is because magnetic poles attract if they are opposite (North attracts South and vice versa) and repel if they are the same.

The Earth itself acts like a giant magnet with a magnetic field extending into space, which is why compasses work. The end of the compass needle that points toward the Earth's North Pole is actually the North-seeking pole of the compass, and it is attracted to the Earth's magnetic South pole (which is near the geographic North Pole). This might seem counterintuitive, but it's based on how magnetic fields interact.

Therefore, a magnet stuck to a metal object can't be conclusively determined as the South pole based purely on the direction of 'pulling' – as magnets will adhere to ferromagnetic materials irrespective of their 'pole' identity, due to the nature of the material's response to a magnetic field.