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Q. The figure below shows the various positions (labelled by subscripts) of small magnetized needles $P$ and $Q$. The arrows show the direction of their magnetic moment. Which configuration corresponds to the lowest potential energy of all the configurations show?Physics Question Image

Delhi UMET/DPMTDelhi UMET/DPMT 2009Magnetism and Matter

Solution:

For lowest potential energy configuration magnetic moments should be parallel Hence, $ PQ_{6} $ will be the lowest potential energy configuration.