MAGNETS! :]

Since Valentine's day is coming up, I thought I'd do this blog on ATTRACTION. Haha. Bad physics pun. Well, I suppose I should have saved this one for next Sunday, which is actually Valentine's day, but I couldn't think of anything else for this weekend. :D Okay, well I had a blog idea, but I can't use it. GRAWR! >.<

Well anyway, when I was a little kid, I liked magnets. I don't know where on earth my parents bought this for me, but it gave me hours of entertainment.
Inside the little compartments are littler magnets, and the case is a magnet itself! How cool is that?! (I know, I was a nerd child. -___-) All the littler magnets are in a pile on the floor mixed in with the colored paper clips that came with the set too.

All the magnets have one side painted red. When I was a mini Steph, my dad told me that the red side is always attracted to the non red side I played with my magnets and sure enough, he was right. And I even found that the paper clips get momentarily charged when near a magnet. I learned that this happens because the opposite charges are attracted to the magnet, and the same forces are repelled, causing a slight charge.

(+++magnet---)(++paperclip--)(+otherpaperclip-) <--Fail diagram. But it kind of illustrates the point...

Okay, well have a great week, everyone. Three day weekend next weekend! :D (And no homework on top of it!) OMG. I just found a magnet that fails at life. Haha. Ahh, it's going to be fun putting all this back...:P