Download Class 9 Chapter 8 Physics Exercise Short Questions PDF for quick revision and exam preparation. This PDF is helpful for 9th class students who want to prepare important exercise short questions according to the new syllabus. Students can use it to revise chapter-wise questions, improve their concepts, and prepare better for school tests and board exams.
Chapter 8 Short Questions: Magnetism
These are the exercise short questions from Chapter 8 of the Class 9 Physics textbook. In this chapter you are expected to be able to state, from memory and in two or three lines:
- Ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic materials.
- The properties of a bar magnet, and what happens when it is cut.
- Why repulsion is the only sure test for a magnet.
- Magnetic field lines, their direction, and where the field is strongest.
- Induced magnetism, and the right-hand grip rule.
- Why soft iron suits electromagnet cores and steel suits permanent magnets.
Wording That Costs Marks in This Chapter
Short answers in Magnetism are marked on precision rather than length. These are the specific slips that lose marks here:
- Giving attraction as the test for a magnet.
- Saying a cut magnet gives a single pole.
- Drawing field lines from south to north outside the magnet.
Working Through the Set
Cover the answer, write your own version, then compare. Recognising a correct answer is not the same as producing one, and only writing exposes the difference. Mark yourself as strictly as an examiner would: if the unit is missing, count the mark as lost. Come back to anything you got wrong two days later rather than the same evening.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is repulsion the only sure test for a magnet?
Because a magnet attracts any magnetic material, magnetised or not, so attraction proves nothing. Only two magnets repel each other, so repulsion is conclusive.
Is this PDF free and based on the new syllabus?
Yes to both. It is free with no sign-up, and it follows the current Class 9 Physics textbook, in which Magnetism is Chapter 8 of nine.
Related Class 9 Physics Resources
For the reasoning answers from the same chapter see the Chapter 8 constructive questions, and test yourself with the Chapter 8 online test. Continue with Chapter 7 and Chapter 9, or sit a full paper from the 25 Class 9 Physics guess papers. Everything else is on the Class 9 Physics page.