Magnetism & Matter — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Magnetism & Matter is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 64 previous-year and practice questions on Magnetism & Matter, organised into 4 topics: Bar Magnet and Magnetic Dipole, Earth's Magnetism, Magnetic Properties of Materials and Hysteresis. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Bar Magnet and Magnetic Dipole

• A small bar magnet placed with its axis at 30ᵒ with an external field of 0.06 T…
• Two identical small bar magnets each of dipole moment 3√5 J/T are placed at a center to…
• A small circular loop of conducting wire has radius a and carries current I. It is…
• A magnetic monopole has never been isolated experimentally.
• A bar magnet of length 14 cm is placed in the magnetic meridian with its north pole…
• A coil having 100 turns, area of 5 × 10⁻³ m², carrying current of 1 mA is placed in…
• A straight magnetic strip has a magnetic moment of 44 Am². If the strip is bent in a…
• Two short magnetic dipoles m₁ and m₂ each having magnetic moment of 1 Am² are placed at…
• A short bar magnet placed with its axis at 30° with an external field of 800 Gauss…
• A bar magnet with a magnetic moment 5.0 Am² is placed in parallel position relative to a…
• The magnetic potential due to a magnetic dipole at a point on its axis situated at a…
• A circular coil having 200 turns, 2.5 × 10⁻⁴ m² area and carrying 100 μ A current is…
• Two bar magnets oscillate in a horizontal plane in earth's magnetic field with time…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is…
• The magnetic moment of a bar magnet is 0.5 Am². It is suspended in a uniform magnetic…
• A bar magnet having a magnetic moment of 2.0 × 10⁵ JT⁻¹, is placed along the direction…
• A bar magnet with magnetic moment m is placed in a uniform field B making angle θ with…
• A magnetic dipole experiences a torque of 80 √3 N m when placed in uniform magnetic…
• In a uniform magnetic field, the magnetic needle has a magnetic moment 9.85 × 10⁻² A/m²…
• The magnetic moments associated with two closely wound circular coils A and B of radius…

Earth's Magnetism

• The angle between the geographic meridian and the magnetic meridian at a place is called:
• At a certain place the angle of dip is 30° and the horizontal component of earth's…
• At an angle of 30° to the magnetic meridian, the apparent dip is 45°. Find the true dip :
• A magnet hung at 45° with magnetic meridian makes an angle of 60° with the horizontal…
• The vertical component of the earth's magnetic field is 6 × 10⁻⁵ T at any place where…
• A compass needle oscillates 20 times per minute at a place where the dip is 30° and 30…
• Choose the correct option
• A compass needle of oscillation magnetometer oscillates 20 times per minute at a place P…
• The angle of dip at the magnetic equator is:

Magnetic Properties of Materials

• Given below are two statements: Statement I : The diamagnetic property depends on…
• The free space inside a current carrying toroid is filled with a material of…
• Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II; (A) Magnetic induction | (I) Ampere…
• Statement I : The ferromagnetic property depends on temperature. At high temperature…
• In a ferromagnetic material, below the curie temperature, a domain is defined as :
• Given below are two statements : Statement I : Susceptibilities of paramagnetic and…
• Given below are two statements: Statement I : For diamagnetic substance, -1 ≤ χ < 0…
• A paramagnetic sample shows a net magnetisation of 6 A/m when it is placed in an…
• The Curie temperature is the temperature above which:
• The susceptibility of a paramagnetic material is 99. The permeability of the material in…
• Following plots show magnetization (M) vs magnetizing field (H) and magnetic…
• The relationship between the magnetic susceptibility (x) and the magnetic permeability…
• Soft iron is preferred for electromagnet cores because it has:
• Which of the following statements are correct? (A) Electric monopoles do not exist…
• Which of the following is ferromagnetic at room temperature?
• The current required to be passed through a solenoid of 15 cm length and 60 turns in…
• The space inside a straight current carrying solenoid is filled with a magnetic material…
• A soft ferromagnetic material is placed in an external magnetic field. The magnetic…
• The magnetic susceptibility of a diamagnetic substance is:
• A long solenoid with 1000 turns/m has a core material with relative permeability 500 and…

Hysteresis

• The area of a B-H hysteresis loop represents:
• The figure gives experimentally measured B vs H variation in a ferromagnetic material…
• Magnetic materials used for making permanent magnets (P) and magnets in a transformer…
• The coercivity of a magnet is 5 × 10³ A / m. The amount of current required to be passed…

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Frequently asked questions

How many Magnetism & Matter questions are there for JEE Main?

PrepWiser has 64 Magnetism & Matter questions for JEE Main, grouped into 4 topics such as Bar Magnet and Magnetic Dipole, Earth's Magnetism and Magnetic Properties of Materials.

Are these Magnetism & Matter questions from previous-year JEE Main papers?

Yes — most are genuine previous-year questions from past JEE Main papers, and the rest are practice questions written to match the JEE Main pattern and difficulty.

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