Title: Explain the operation of a magnetic compass.
Course: Aircraft Pilot Training I (20053-I) > Section: Examining Aircraft Instruments, Components, Systems, and Performance

Explanation should include the following:

- A magnet is a piece of material, usually a metal containing iron, that attracts and holds lines of magnetic flux.
- Regardless of size, every magnet has two poles—north and south.
- When one magnet is placed in the field of another, the unlike poles attract each other, and like poles repel.

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