What you will see on this page are some properties of magnets. There are some basic properties of magnets that are very… well they are basic. You’ll probably know them already and we don’t need to explain them to you very much. There are also many properties that need further explanation and we will discuss on this page. First of all, magnets can be very closely linked to electricity. From the diagram here, you can see that there are field lines that are actually going from the south pole towards the north pole within the magnet.