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If a bar magnet's nuetral region is broken in two, what will most likely occur?

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You will create two separate bar magnets. Let's say we have a bar magnet with a north pole at the top region, and a south pole in the bottom region. The magnetic field lines will run from the north pole to the south pole. If the bar magnet were broken into the two, the portion containing the north pole will now have a south pole at the point where it was broken. Similarly, the section containing the south pole will have a north pole at the point where it was broken.

The reason for this is because magnetic monopoles do not exist. There are electric monopoles, those are called electrons. But there are no magnetic monopoles. There is no such thing as a magnetic charge. Mathematically, this is captured in Maxwell's equations. The divergence of the magnetic field is always zero, which means there is no such thing as a magnetic monopole. There is nothing theoretically stopping a magnetic monopole from existing. A lot of theories actually favor it. We just have no proof of it, so we assume they dont exist.

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If a bar magnets neutral region is broken into two, the newly cut faces will become the new north or south poles of the smaller pieces.

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