Field lines around a magnet travel from North to South on the outside and from South to North on the inside. What exactly is there to work out? You make very little sense.
I don't understand what you are trying to prove. I could draw another diagram showing how reversing the magnet will cause the X side to move up using my exact same principles. But I'd rather not, because you have just shown me you don't know jack.
Or we could say that because there isn't another magnet that the field lines curve around head towards the south pole. And as shown in my diagram this constituents addition of field lines above and cancellation below, meaning it moves down, and the mass must be hung on Y.
My god. It is Y. I'll draw up a diagram after this game of HoN. At least I now know about 5% of the state got that one right, should help me push my rank up.
Tbh if 5 is B I think that's a pretty poorly worded question. It didn't ask how the gravitational pull differed in relation to what. I took the question as meaning whether or not the positioning on the Earth between the Sun and the Moon would have a direct effect on Suns pull on the moon. Ofc it...
Or this guy could just explain it perfectly. Also with the B field:
Since the torque is only provided by side X (as it is the only side inside the field) you can use T=Fd.
F=BIL. so T=BILd. B=T/ILd. Which was 0.98.
Alternatively you can say that force of side X pushing down must equal that...
I'm 110% sure its B. Yes it is proportional to sintheta but theta is always 90 degrees to the magnetic field. The FORCE on AB is always constant but swaps every half turn. The torque however is not constant. Therefore B.