Creating a One-Sided Magnet? | Natural Occurrence of Magnets

[Femme_physics]

If I cut a magnet exactly where the border of its south and north pole is...does it mean I'm creating a one-sided magnet?

Also, are one sided magnets naturally-occurring?

 

[cragar]

No , you will then create 2 magnets with both north and south poles.
B fields always have a North and a south pole.

 

[Femme_physics]

Ah...that's interesting... thanks :)

 

[sophiecentaur]

No , you will then create 2 magnets with both north and south poles.
B fields always have a North and a south pole.

I should say, rather, that B fields (field 'lines') have no end to them - they are looped, passing through more intenser regions, which we tend to refer to as Poles. Inside a permanent magnet (or a solenoid) the field 'lines' are still there.