GCSE Level Questions: Magnets and Electromagnets

Q8. Kaylee sets up an experiment to investigate the magnetic field around a current-carrying wire.

(a)

(i) Describe how the student could use this experiment and a compass to investigate the magnetic field produced by the wire.

[3 marks]

(ii) Draw the shape of the field which would be found around this wire.

[2 marks]

(b) The behaviour of a magnetic compass is evidence that the core of the Earth is magnetic.

Explain why.

[2 marks]

(TOTAL 7 marks)