Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below. Assertion : Two short magnets are placed on a cork which floats on water. The magnets are placed such that the axis of one produced bisects the axis of other at right angles. Then the cork has neither translational nor rotational motion. Reason : Net force on the cork is zero.
When two short magnets are placed on a cork such that their axes are perpendicular, the magnetic forces balance each other out, resulting in no net force or torque acting on the cork. This means the cork will have neither translational nor rotational motion. Therefore, both the assertion and reason are true, and the reason correctly explains the assertion.