@ Lowtax4eva you ever consider maybe the kid was taking an online physics course and has a lackadaisical teacher who hasn't invested much energy into helping their students understand the information in the book? So many of you people on these sites are unnecessarily demeaning and condescending to people who need help, or are looking for a detailed easy to understand explanation of something they're have a hard time with. It's people like you and every other person who treats these kids like this that they develop feelings of helplessness and drop out of elementary physics classes.
Look son, if the needle is magnetized, it's going to receive equal pull from both ends. Remember in your book where it says "all magnets have north and south poles"? That comes into play here, as the needle is tugged to the north, it'll also be tugged to the south. Depending on the strength of the magnet you can actually get it do some pretty cool parlor tricks as well.
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