Eli5: Do magnets have a stronger push than pull? Or are they equal or even the opposite?

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I was doing a seminary pqper on dc motors with brushs and thought if the motor could work on the concept of the sqme magnetic poles pushing eachother. From experience i feel like it’s harder to keep two same poles together that two different ones apart. So the question is, what is the difference between a push end pull force, if any?

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The force is a function of the amount of magnetic flux, not the direction. As a result “pull” = “push”.

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