Mr. Wang works in a recycling center. Recyclable materials arrive at the center mixed. Workers use magnets to separate steel cans from other items. Which two statements are true about the force between a steel can and a magnet?

Option 3, The attraction between the can and the magnet is a pull.

Explanation:

The complete question is

Mr. Wang works in a recycling center. Recyclable materials arrive at the

center mixed together. Workers use magnets to separate steel cans from

other items. Which two statements are true about the force between a steel can and a magnet?

1 Gravity pushes the can toward the magnet.

2 The force between the can and the magnet is a noncontact force.

3 The attraction between the can and the magnet is a pull.

4 The attraction between the can and the magnet is a push

Solution

The force exerted by magnet on steel is the pull force. In magnets unlike poles attract each other (pull force) while the like poles repel (push force). Now, the steel or any ferrous object in the garbage when experience magnetic field develop magnetic field of their own in such a way that their north always faces the south of the external magnet or vice versa.

Hence, the force between a steel can and a magnet is pull force

since the atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus, as we move to the left on the periodic table, the electrostatic pull between the nucleus and the valence electron shell decreases. as we move down a group (vertical column), the valence shell energy level gets further and further from the nucleus.