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Question
The following diagrams show two magnets near one another. Use the words, 'Attract, Repel, Turn around' to describe what happens in each case.

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Solution
- Unlike poles attract one another.
- Like poles repel each other.
- Unlike poles attract one another.
- Perpendicular poles turn around and attract one another.
- Like poles repel each other.
- Perpendicular poles turn around and attract one another.
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