Today while I was walking to the kitchen to get some water, I noticed a picture on the table with my baby cousin Erica and Santa Clause. Then I saw that the things that was holding the picture up were magnets. A magnet is an object that creates a magnetic field and exerts a magnetic force. Magnets contain two opposite poles known as north and south pole. The opposite poles attract. This is how the picture is able to stand up between the two objects. The two objects have opposite poles which cause them to attract to one another. However, if they were the same poles, they would not attract. Like poles repel each other. Even though it seems that both magnets have only one pole, they do not. Magnets always have both a south and north pole. Their other poles are on the opposite side of the magnet which is glued to the glass object.
