How do we know that the contact force will be downwards?
The First part of the Question before this One asks you to draw a fully labelled free-boy diagram for the magnet M1 .
which is you draw a
dot an Arrow comes out UPWARDS , this represents
the Repulsion due to M2 another Arrow comes out DOWNWARDS , this
represents the Weight *Pull of Earth*This Means that ; When you draw the free-body Diagram of M2 you will do as follows* I draw it so that I don't get confused , I suggest u do it too
* :
Dot representing M2
an Arrow UPWARDS which represents the
force exerted by the Wooden Base another Arrow DOWNWARDS which represents
the Repulsion from M1 And Hence Since it's Newton's third law Pair , the forced has to be reversed *kind of*
Since the Wooden Base acted UPWARDS , it's
Pair will act
DOWNWARDS If you don't get it Let Me know